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Repeat Offender
Some years ago I was asked to become a regular contributor to the radio show Why The Long Face? In 2011 I put together the first book of the best of my weekly contributions, titled Why The Long Face - The Paper Trail... Sadly, but in the spirit of if you keep moving then they can't hit you, and going out at the top, the presenters chose to discontinue Why The Long Face? in radio form. However, its spirit lives on in this, the second collection of the best broadcasted bits. Not the rejects, not a second-rate sequel, but a Volume II of all new material. With pictures.
Pro Android Apps Performance Optimization
Today's Android apps developers are often running into the need to refine, improve and optimize their apps performances. As more complex apps can be created, it is even more important for developers to deal with this critical issue. Android allows developers to write apps using Java, C or a combination of both with the Android SDK and the Android NDK. Pro Android Apps Performance Optimization reveals how to fine-tune your Android apps, making them more stable and faster. In this book, you'll learn the following: How to optimize your Java code with the SDK, but also how to write and optimize native code using advanced features of the Android NDK such as using ARM single instruction multiple d...
A Question of Trust
TRUST: “The reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety of a person or thing.” A Question of Trust sees the return of the three main characters of The Frailty of Reputation. Ten years have elapsed, and Scott, Sue and Shane are now twenty-somethings. This is an engrossing tale of three lives, irrevocably entwined. Their stories reveal how circumstances, pressures and the differing levels of trust the characters have in others, dictate how they behave. 3rd in the VISITOR series
Android Fragments
Android Fragments is a 100-page quick start accelerated guide to learning and quickly using Android fragments. You'll learn how to code for fragments; deal with config changes; code for regular vs. fragmented dialogs; work with preferences and saving state; work with the compatibility library; and handle advanced async tasks and progress dialogs. After reading and using this book, which is based on material from the best-selling Pro Android, you'll be an Android UI savant. At the very least, your apps' user interfaces and event handling will be more competitive and better performing, especially for tablet-optimized UIs and events.
Somebody's Daughter
A stunning exposé of prostitution in Canada, where a criminal syndicate traffics young women across the country, selling their bodies and murdering them at will. Annie Mae Wilson was nineteen years old on the night she died. After five years working the streets of Nova Scotia, she had found a new pimp and cut ties with supermarket bag boy Bruno, who had called himself her man. Bruno was furious and demanded to be compensated. When Annie Mae refused, he lost his temper and killed her with a single punch. People like Bruno call prostitution “The Game,” and Annie Mae lost. Annie Mae was one of twenty-two prostitutes killed in Canada in 1992, victims of an oppressive system of terror and vi...
Marty Jurow Seein' Stars
Producer and agent Martin Jurow's 60-year career in show business encompasses a glittering array of celebrities he has represented, worked with and befriended. This memoir captures his inimitable power of persuasion as well as the milieu in which he exercised it.
Learn OpenGL ES
Want to create sophisticated games and graphics-intensive apps? Learn OpenGL ES gets you started immediately with OpenGL ES. After mastering the basics of OpenGL ES itself, you will quickly find yourself writing and building game apps, without having to learn about object oriented programming techniques. This book demonstrates the use of a powerful open-source modeling tool, Blender. You will be guided, step by step, through the development of Tank Fence, a dynamic, interactive 3D game. Along the way you'll gain skills in building apps with Eclipse and the Android SDK or NDK, rendering graphics using hardware acceleration, and multithreading for performance and responsiveness. iOS developers...
The Steve Spurrier Story
Mention the name Steve Spurrier to sports fans and without a doubt a lively discussion and exchange will ensue. Love him or hate him, opinions about the new coach of the Washington Redskins and University of Florida gridiron commander, rarely rate as ambivalent. Bill Chastain's The Steve Spurrier Story: From Heisman to Head Ballcoach is the first comprehensive biography of the man on the sidelines. Through interviews with family, friends, colleagues, and players, Chastain provides an intimate look at the significant influences and events that have helped shape Steve Spurrier into the extraordinary and oftentimes controversial football coach he is today. When Spurrier was growing up, the slog...
Safe Shores
A rescue swimmer for the Coast Guard. A fisherman who came out later in life. Will a violent gale storm rip away their chance at a forever after? Fishing is the only life that Kirk has ever known. Born and raised in a small town on the Northern Oregon Coast, coming out of the closet was a struggle. Fortunately, he’s been lucky to find an amazing man to be with who serves in the Coast Guard. But is Shane only interested in a shore leave romance? Shane loves the Coast Guard and the sea. The outdoor life has always called to him, which is one of many things he has in common with the older Kirk. If only Kirk is as interested in building a future together as he is in dominating Shane in the bed...
