Building Buildings

With over 80 images! This book guides you step-by-step through three original Minecraft houses! Also included are tips and tricks for quickly adding details to your builds! This book showcases the author's own building style and hopes others of all ages will find inspiration! NOT OFFICIAL MINECRAFT PRODUCT. NOT APPROVED BY OR ASSOCIATED WITH MOJANG.

Ben Horowitz offers essential advice on building and running a startup - practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog. While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures, drawing from Horowitz’s personal and often humbling experiences.

How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter - that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance - and what drives it - using rigorous statistical methods.

For those who want to learn how to become a better leader to influence, inspire, and impact others. This valuable eBook shares tips and practical steps to improving your leadership skills. When you're leading a group, do you feel like no one pays attention to you? Feeling like you can't accomplish anything? Are you having trouble meeting your daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly goals? Own up to this problem without blaming yourself. There may be a number of reasons for this, including a lack of leadership skills, a lack of communication skills, or a lack of planning and organization skills. ...

Arthur lives with his father, a fallen but proud former noble, in Border Village #49, along with the other good folks condemned to toil in service to the Baron. But Arthur has an edge: a stolen heart card that secretly fell into his possession, thanks to a dragon. It’s a priceless source of power for the Baron and the tyrant will kill to get it back. Invaluable, too, to a young man of spellcasting ambitions.

Gain Mastery Over Advanced Threat Intelligence and XDR Integration Into Cyber Fusion Centers in Just Weeks – Even If You're New to SOC Management Are you struggling to keep up with the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape? Do you find it challenging to integrate advanced tools like XDR seamlessly into your Security Operations Center (SOC)? Are you tired of combing through fragmented information only to find gaps in practical application? You're not alone if you've answered "yes" to any of these questions. Most cybersecurity professionals and students face similar challenges, but there's a...

Have you ever been interested in finding the best and simplest way to get started on a path to building more muscle, with an efficient training guide, that is easy to follow and guarantees results? Maybe you have previously considered joining a gym and trying to build muscle before, but have put off the idea, and you are keen to get started on your very own fitness journey.

More than 10 years after Parenting Your Adult Child was published, much has changed—including young adults themselves, as well as their parents. Economic upheavals, challenges to traditional values and beliefs, the phenomenon of over-involved "helicopter parenting"—all make relating to grown children more difficult than ever. Yet at the same time, being a parent of an adult child can bring great rewards.

Creating an authentic personal brand can be challenging. But, it can also change your life and help you reach your full potential. In this second book of his Building Brands series, Ed Burghard outlines a blueprint for how to 1) discover what makes you unique and 2) leverage your uniqueness for maximum success. Unlike other books on personal branding, the author rejects the advice that you need to reinvent yourself. Instead, Ed argues the key to success is to discover what makes you unique and leverage that uniqueness to touch lives and improve life. In this book, you will learn: What a ...

Master the transformative power of emotional intelligence in 7 simple steps… and further unleash your full potential to lead a more fulfilling life by embracing the 7 skills to build mental toughness!

During and after a traumatic experience, survivors experience a cascade of physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, relational, and spiritual responses that can make them feel unbalanced and threatened. The second edition of Building Resilience to Trauma explains common responses from a biological perspective, reframing the human experience from one of shame and pathology to one of hope and biology.

At a time of frightening volatility, what is the average investor to do? The answer: Turn to Burton G. Malkiel's advice in his reassuring, authoritative, gimmick-free, and perennially best-selling guide to investing. Long established as the first book to purchase before starting a portfolio or 401(k), A Random Walk Down Wall Street now features new material on "tax-loss harvesting", the crown jewel of tax management; the current bitcoin bubble; and automated investment advisers; as well as a brand-new chapter on factor investing and risk parity.

Whether your family has been doing devotions for years or this is your first time introducing them, Building a Family of Faith is a weekly devotional designed to involve the whole family. Andy Dooley--a passionate leader, pastor, and father of four who has worked with families for more than eighteen years through sports, fitness, and ministry--will help you simplify yet enhance your family's quality time with devotions that children of all ages will enjoy and learn from. As you listen to this devotional each week, your family will . . .

The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of innovation, connection, and freedom. In the past decade, it has fallen almost entirely under the control of a very small group of companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. In Read Write Own, tech visionary Chris Dixon argues that the dream of an open network for fostering creativity and entrepreneurship doesn’t have to die and can, in fact, be saved with blockchain networks.

Leaders on projects should be the chief people officers (CPO) of their teams. This position does a less physical work and more mentoring of others doing the work. In fact, while most entry level positions execute work, senior leaders lead, organize, and build teams. This book is about building remarkable teams that build remarkable projects. To do this, you must have three key things: a multiplier leader, a strong team, and a strenuous performance target, goal, or milestone. With these three in place, any team can win! This book will help you become the team builder you were designed to be....

Step into the revolutionary sphere of tomorrow's architecture with "Building Tomorrow"—a visionary exploration that beckons the curious and the bold to discover the synergies between cutting-edge technologies and sustainable building practices. This digitally guided odyssey brings readers face-to-face with the most transformative advancements reshaping the foundation of architectural design, forever. "Building Tomorrow" delves deep into the responsive architecture that breathes with life—dynamic structures that shift and adapt, beckoning an age where buildings are not merely passive ...

The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice: Team of Rivals for LBJ. The personalities behind every burst of 1960s liberal reform - from civil rights and immigration reform, to Medicare and Head Start - and what we'll lose if those programs are dismantled.

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Building Wealth for Building the Kingdom is a simple, practical guide to help LDS families organize their personal financial plans to meet their unique goals. The book provides simple answers to questions like: How much should I be saving each month for my son's mission? How much should I be saving each month for my children's college education? How can I save enough to be able to retire while I'm healthy enough to serve a mission? Avoiding tips on pinching pennies, the book focuses on opportunities to save thousands or tens of thousands of dollars by making smart moves with big decisions, ...

Are you in your 40s, feeling like your body and health are declining at a rapid rate? Do you want to “feel young” and “look ripped” (again) with more muscle, strength, and energy? Do you want a simple muscle building and strength training guide that guarantees results? Then look no further! After years of research and application, I discovered a muscle growth formula and fitness techniques that the supplement industry had tried to keep hidden from the general public to maximize profits. As a result, I was able to bulk up from 120 lbs to 150 lbs in three months. I have also been ...