Beautiful Criminals

Beautiful Criminals
Author: Eric Tipton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2017-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501136526

"When Amanda Cooper gets out of jail, she's determined to never go back. Two years behind bars meant leaving her teenage daughter, Taylor, with Amanda's wild and riotous mother, but now that she's back, it's the three of them against the world. All Amanda wants is to secure her dream life: predictable, boring, and bordered by a white picket fence. But someone is trying to pull her back into the game. Is Amanda's new life within reach, or will her final gamble mean losing everything?"--Dust jacket flap.

R Markdown

R Markdown
Author: Yihui Xie
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2018-07-27
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0429782969

R Markdown: The Definitive Guide is the first official book authored by the core R Markdown developers that provides a comprehensive and accurate reference to the R Markdown ecosystem. With R Markdown, you can easily create reproducible data analysis reports, presentations, dashboards, interactive applications, books, dissertations, websites, and journal articles, while enjoying the simplicity of Markdown and the great power of R and other languages. In this book, you will learn Basics: Syntax of Markdown and R code chunks, how to generate figures and tables, and how to use other computing languages Built-in output formats of R Markdown: PDF/HTML/Word/RTF/Markdown documents and ioslides/Slidy/Beamer/PowerPoint presentations Extensions and applications: Dashboards, Tufte handouts, xaringan/reveal.js presentations, websites, books, journal articles, and interactive tutorials Advanced topics: Parameterized reports, HTML widgets, document templates, custom output formats, and Shiny documents. Yihui Xie is a software engineer at RStudio. He has authored and co-authored several R packages, including knitr, rmarkdown, bookdown, blogdown, shiny, xaringan, and animation. He has published three other books, Dynamic Documents with R and knitr, bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown, and blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown. J.J. Allaire is the founder of RStudio and the creator of the RStudio IDE. He is an author of several packages in the R Markdown ecosystem including rmarkdown, flexdashboard, learnr, and radix. Garrett Grolemund is the co-author of R for Data Science and author of Hands-On Programming with R. He wrote the lubridate R package and works for RStudio as an advocate who trains engineers to do data science with R and the Tidyverse.

Capitalizing on Dreams: a Comprehensive Guide to U.S. IPO & Listings

Capitalizing on Dreams: a Comprehensive Guide to U.S. IPO & Listings
Author: Jiang Jing (Sean)
Publisher: US International Finance Foundation Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2024-06-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This Book is your comprehensive yet concise guide to take your company public in the U.S. capital markets. Imagine a moment of transformation, where a company steps out from the shadows of private ownership into the bright lights of the public stage. That's right, we're talking about an Initial Public Offering ("IPO") – a dazzling debut where a company's shares make their first appearance to the world at large. It's like a grand entrance at a high-profile gala, where the company is the belle of the ball, and the public is the eager audience. “A must-read for anyone looking to navigate the complex world of U.S. IPOs. This book is not only comprehensive but also engaging, making the intricacies of going public in America accessible to a wide audience. Highly recommended!” - China Listed Companies Association “An insightful and well-researched guide to the U.S. IPO process. The author‘s expertise shines through on every page, providing invaluable information for entrepreneurs and investors alike. A professional and compelling read” - InterContinental Financial Group “This book is a treasure trove of knowledge for anyone interested in the American public markets. The author's clear and concise writing style makes even the most technical aspects of IPOs understandable and engaging. A definite addition to our Group’s bookshelf” - Manhattan Securities Group “A truly remarkable work that demystifies the process of going public in the U.S. The author's passion for the subject is evident in every chapter, making this book a joy to read and an essential resource for anyone in the field” - China International Finance Foundation "An excellent resource for both novices and seasoned professionals in the world of finance. The author's ability to distill complex IPO processes into digestible content is commendable. A must-have for anyone looking to go public in America” - Guo Huan Law Firm (China Renowned Law Firm)

Markdown Dreams

Markdown Dreams
Author: Peter S Conrad
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2020-09-18
Genre:
ISBN:

Markdown is not just a markup language. It is an ecosystem of powerful tools that lets you quickly craft an HTML page, manage a full doc set, take notes, write a novel-even create a slide presentation. Markdown makes it easy to create content quickly, because its simple syntax covers most of the bases without requiring you to take your fingers off the keys.With shared storage or source control, Markdown can be a powerful collaboration framework, suitable for both technical and non-technical contributors and supported by tools that meet every preference.This guide presents some basic recipes for working with useful Markdown tools to create powerful content.

The Net of Dreams

The Net of Dreams
Author: Julie Salamon
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2014-08-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1497670705

The author of The Devil’s Candy and Wendy and the Lost Boys—herself the daughter of Holocaust survivors—shares her family’s stories, which take them from the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe to the small Appalachian town where she was raised.

More Than a Dream

More Than a Dream
Author: Gerald Krefetz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1981
Genre: New business enterprises
ISBN:

Mountain of My Dreams

Mountain of My Dreams
Author: Richard T. Antony
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2004-12-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1418404918

In the late 1970s, Richard convinced his wife, Sandra, that they should leave their promising professional careers and comfortable suburban lifestyle to start an azalea nursery in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. With no horticultural training or business experience, few mechanical skills, and absolutely no idea what they were getting themselves into, numerous adventures followed. In the second book in the planned four-book series, Richard continues the couples colorful story, a story of triumph and despair, of high expectations and harsh reality, and of the people who touched their lives along the way. In the tradition of such classics as The Little House on the Prairie and Waltons Mountain, Mountain of My Dreams shares the true story of two ordinary people and their memorable, often remarkable 25-year journey. Much more than just another back-to-the-land chronicle, this is a heartwarming tale of a man, a woman, and their belief in each other. If youve ever wondered why the less-traveled road is less traveled, you need to read their story.

The Stickup Kids

The Stickup Kids
Author: Randol Contreras
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2013
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520273370

Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an unprecedented insiderÕs look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers. Known on the streets as ÒStickup Kids,Ó these men raided and brutally tortured drug dealers storing large amounts of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and cash. As a participant observer, Randol Contreras offers both a personal and theoretical account for the rise of the Stickup Kids and their violence. He mainly focuses on the lives of neighborhood friends, who went from being crack dealers to drug robbers once their lucrative crack market opportunities disappeared. The result is a stunning, vivid, on-the-ground ethnographic description of a drug robberyÕs violence, the drug market high life, the criminal life course, and the eventual pain and suffering experienced by the casualties of the Crack Era. Provocative and eye-opening, The Stickup Kids urges us to explore the ravages of the drug trade through weaving history, biography, social structure, and drug market forces. It offers a revelatory explanation for drug market violence by masterfully uncovering the hidden social forces that produce violent and self-destructive individuals. Part memoir, part penetrating analysis, this book is engaging, personal, deeply informed, and entirely absorbing.

Talk Like TED

Talk Like TED
Author: Carmine Gallo
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2014-03-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1466837276

Ideas are the currency of the twenty-first century. In order to succeed, you need to be able to sell your ideas persuasively. This ability is the single greatest skill that will help you accomplish your dreams. Many people have a fear of public speaking or are insecure about their ability to give a successful presentation. Now public speaking coach and bestselling author Carmine Gallo explores what makes a great presentation by examining the widely acclaimed TED Talks, which have redefined the elements of a successful presentation and become the gold standard for public speaking. TED ? which stands for technology, entertainment, and design ? brings together the world's leading thinkers. These are the presentations that set the world on fire, and the techniques that top TED speakers use will make any presentation more dynamic, fire up any team, and give anyone the confidence to overcome their fear of public speaking. In his book, Carmine Gallo has broken down hundreds of TED talks and interviewed the most popular TED presenters, as well as the top researchers in the fields of psychology, communications, and neuroscience to reveal the nine secrets of all successful TED presentations. Gallo's step-by-step method makes it possible for anyone to deliver a presentation that is engaging, persuasive, and memorable. Carmine Gallo's top 10 Wall Street Journal Bestseller Talk Like TED will give anyone who is insecure about their public speaking abilities the tools to communicate the ideas that matter most to them, the skill to win over hearts and minds, and the confidence to deliver the talk of their lives. The opinions expressed by Carmine Gallo in TALK LIKE TED are his own. His book is not endorsed, sponsored or authorized by TED Conferences, LLC or its affiliates.

Coyote and the Turtle's Dream

Coyote and the Turtle's Dream
Author: Terry Lofton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2011
Genre: Diabetes
ISBN:

Rain, now a 12-year-old, is visited once again by the eagle, but this time in a dream. As Rain sleeps, Sky Heart, the eagle, sings a song to him that ends with the refrain, 'a boy must help us.' In the song, Sky Heart provides clues about strange vanishings on the Medicine Cave Indian Reservation. Thistle, the rabbit, has suspicions that Coyote is behind the disappearance of fossils from an ancient turtle, the sudden evaporation of water from the reservation's rivers, and the ominous absence of a 7th grader from Thunder Rock Middle School. Searching for the meaning of the dream, Rain seeks the help of Boomer (Thunder Cloud), Simon, and Hummingbird. Unknowingly, the four friends are drawn into the coyote's game and the criminal activities of a dangerous fossil poaching ring. Deep within the gullies of Shell Ridge, an escarpment that borders the bed of an ancient sea, Rain follows Coyote to a mysterious cave where he discovers the origins of the reservation's water and confronts the notorious fossil thief, Vernon Smeed -- risking everything to save one that he loves. With his pranks and deceptions, Coyote puts Rain through many tests. The trickster teaches the boy lessons that will last a lifetime, but he, too, learns an important truth -- Sky Heart has chosen well. The great bird has entrusted his messages about health and the wisdom of Native knowledge to a remarkable boy whose strength is founded in the steadfastness of friends and love of family.