Best Selling Books by John Elder

Mathematics of Computing -- Parallelism.

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.

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 ».

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.

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.

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.

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.

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°

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.

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.

The theories of investment under uncertainty and real options predict that uncertainty about, for example, oil prices will tend to depress current investment. We reinvestigate the relationship between the price of oil and investment, focusing on the role of uncertainty about oil prices. We find that volatility in oil prices has had a negative and statistically significant effect on several measures of investment, durables consumption and aggregate output. We also find that accounting for the effects of oil price volatility tends to exacerbate the negative dynamic response of economic activity to a negative oil price shock, while dampening the response to a positive oil price shock.

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!

"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.

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.

A novel set in the 21st century, dealing with the problem of overpopulation. This is the first novel by John Elder, a geophysicist, whose previous works include ''The Structure of the Planets''. He has worked in many countries, including Japan, and this novel reflects his knowledge of Japanese culture.

This paper provides some empirical evidence on a relatively new and increasingly prevalent form of equity restructuring called tracking stock. Also known as quot;targetedquot; or quot;letteredquot; stock in the financial press, this equity structure has been adopted with increasing frequency, with seven tracking stocks being proposed in the first half of 1999 and several more rumored to be imminent. We find, for a sample of 27 firms, a mean abnormal return of over 3% in the two-day period surrounding the announced proposal to issue a tracking stock. Individually, 24 of the 27 firms in the sample earned positive abnormal returns, while none earned significantly negative abnormal returns. These estimates are comparable to previous estimates of abnormal returns associated with announcements of carve-outs and spin- offs. The empirical finding that announcements of all three forms of equity restructurings earn positive abnormal returns is consistent with the hypothesis that investors expect gains from more focused and transparent business units.

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.

A firm''s announcement that it intends to restructure based on tracking stock is usually associated with a positive and significant stock price reaction, at least in the short-run. Typically, this reaction has been attributed to expected reductions in a diversification discount, via reduced agency costs and/or reduced informational asymmetries. The existing literature has investigated this latter hypothesis - the impact of tracking stocks on informational asymmetries - by focusing on the behavior of equity analysts: the number following the specified firms and the accuracy of their forecasts. The results thus far have been inconclusive. In contrast, we focus on the behavior of market makers. In particular, we analyze the liquidity provided by market makers, as measured by the bid-ask spread, before and after a firm issues a tracking stock. Our results provide additional support to the growing evidence that restructurings based on tracking stocks are not effective at reducing informational asymmetries. Rather, firms that issue tracking stocks tend to exhibit less liquidity and greater adverse selection than a matched sample of control firms.

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!

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

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].