Bret Taylor (18 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. The most effective engineers - the ones who have risen to become distinguished engineers and leaders at their companies - can produce 10 times the impact of other engineers, but they're not working 10 times the hours. They've internalized a mindset that took me years of trial and error to figure out. I'm going to share that mindset with you - along with hundreds of actionable techniques and proven habits - so you can shortcut those years. Introducing The Effective Engineer - the only book designed specifically for today's software engineers, based on extensive interviews with engineering leaders at top tech companies, and packed with hundreds of techniques to accelerate your career. For two years, I embarked on a quest seeking an answer to one question: How do the most effective engineers make their efforts, their teams, and their careers more successful? I interviewed and collected stories from engineering VPs, directors, managers, and other leaders at today's top software companies: established, household names like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn; rapidly growing mid-sized companies like Dropbox, Square, Box, Airbnb, and Etsy; and startups like Reddit, Stripe, Instagram, and Lyft. These leaders shared stories about the most valuable insights they've learned and the most common and costly mistakes that they've seen engineers - sometimes themselves - make. This is just a small sampling of the hard questions I posed to them: What engineering qualities correlate with future success? What have you done that has paid off the highest returns? What separates the most effective engineers you've worked with from everyone else? What's the most valuable lesson your team has learned in the past year? What advice do you give to new engineers on your team? Everyone's story is different, but many of the lessons share common themes. You'll get to hear stories like: How did Instagram's team of 5 engineers build and support a service that grew to over 40 million users by the time the company was acquired? How and why did Quora deploy code to production 40 to 50 times per day? How did the team behind Google Docs become the fastest acquisition to rewrite its software to run on Google's infrastructure? How does Etsy use continuous experimentation to design features that are guaranteed to increase revenue at launch? How did Facebook's small infrastructure team effectively operate thousands of database servers? How did Dropbox go from barely hiring any new engineers to nearly tripling its team size year-over-year? What's more, I've distilled their stories into actionable habits and lessons that you can follow step-by-step to make your career and your team more successful. The skills used by effective engineers are all learnable. And I'll teach them to you. With The Effective Engineer, I'll teach you a unifying framework called leverage - the value produced per unit of time invested - that you can use to identify the activities that produce disproportionate results. Here's a sneak peek at some of the lessons you'll learn. You'll learn how to: Prioritize the right projects and tasks to increase your impact. Earn more leeway from your peers and managers on your projects. Spend less time maintaining and fixing software and more time building and shipping new features. Produce more accurate software estimates. Validate your ideas cheaply to reduce wasted work. Navigate organizational and people-related bottlenecks. Find the appropriate level of code reviews, testing, abstraction, and technical debt to balance speed and quality. Shorten your debugging workflow to increase your iteration speed. Use metrics to quantify your impact and consistently make progress.…

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HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. 1ST ED THUS.. VERY GOOD CONDITION Green Clothbnd, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT. WHITE ENDPAPERS. ; Black on Gold spine & cover titles on Olive GREEN CLOTH HARD COVERS.CHECKERBOARD edge border decoration; 335-685pg pages; INCLUDES several popular AMERICAN AUTHORS. Many other old favorites by popular authors of the day. Illustrated by Harte,bret Cover Frontis (illustrator).…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Cover has some light edge and corner wear.; Bret Corbridge is an active member in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He has been married for fourteen years and has three beautiful children. As a Marriage and Family Therapist he operates a private practice in both Nebraska and Colorado and is currently working on his second book. ; 9.90 X 8.10 X 0.60 inches; 128 pages.…

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No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. Single Sheet Folded To Make Four Printed Pages. #92 Of 100 Copies, Initialed By Taylor. Two Poems Contributed To The San Francisco Plain Dealer And The California Advertiser In The Late 1860'S. The First Poem Has Never Been Previously Reprinted, The Second Only Available In The Poems Of 1871-1872 But Has Since Been Dropped From The Collected Editions, According To Taylor. Very Near Fine, Minuscule Tear At The End Of One Fold. In The Original Envelope Which Is Browning And Has A Short Tear And Small Chip At The Fold. Signed by Author(s). …

Condition: New. Idioma/Language: Español. *** Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. No aceptamos pedidos con destino a Ceuta y Melilla.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Cover clean with light shelf wear and gentle signs of use, spine unbroken. Pages clean with no folds or creases looking little read. Clean, lightly used copy. S1.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Literary Classics Edition xiv, 655 p. illus. (facsim) 17 cm. LCCN 43051076 OCLC 944648 LC PS507 .W64 Dewey 810.82 ; grey-green boards with blue designs and lettering, in color dustjacket ; Contents: [1.] American fiction. The devil and Daniel Webster/ Stephen Vincent Bene?t -- Tom Whipple / Walter D. Edmonds -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- Missionary journeys / Willa Cather -- The duke and the daupin come aboard / Mark Twain -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- A preacher goes to war / John W. Thomason, Jr -- Uncle Remus / Joel Chandler Harris -- A last will / Williston Fish -- One arrowhead day / Harry Leon Wilson -- The skylight room / O. Henry -- Rupe Collins / Booth Tarkington -- Our new telephone / Ruth Gordon -- Some like them cold / Ring Lardner -- At the end of the car line / Ben Hur Lampman -- The Japanese / Ogden Nash -- Fifty grand / Ernest Hemingway -- The waltz / Dorothy Parker -- You mean common / Arthur Kober -- Address Unknown / Kressman Taylor. -- [2.] American verse. -- Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Death and General Putnam / Arthur Guiterman -- Home, Sweet Home / John Howard Payne -- To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- Battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe -- Nancy Hanks / Rosemary Bene?t -- Ethiopia saluting the colors / Walt Whitman -- As toilsome I wandered Virginia's woods / Walt Whitman -- Little boy blue / Eugene Field -- The last leaf / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement C. Moore -- American laughter / Kenneth Allan Robinson -- Plain language from truthful James / Bret Harte -- Little Willie / Eugene Field -- The mystery of Gilgal / John Hay -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- The old man and Jim / James Whitcomb Riley -- John L. Sullivan, the strong boy of Boston / Vachel Lindsay -- Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- I have a rendezvous with death / Alan Seeger -- my sweet old etcetera / e. e. cummings -- Two-volume novel / Dorothy Parker -- Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight / Vachel Lindsay -- The maid-servant at the inn / Dorothy Parker -- The death of the hired man / Robert Frost -- Lament / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- Early moon / Carl Sandburg -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Grass / Carl Sandburg -- Shenandoah Road / E.B. White -- Aged four / Mildred Focht -- Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- To fight aloud is very brave / Emily Dickinson -- Song in exile / Alice Duer Miller -- Scum o' the earth / Robert Haven Schauffler -- My city / James Weldon Johnson -- Farewell, my friends / Clarence Day. -- [3.] American fact. -- The declaration of independence -- A letter from Franklin to Washington -- Under a cloud of sail / Richard Henry Dana -- Where I lived and what I lived for / Henry David Thoreau -- The hunting camp / Francis Parkman -- The only one / Maude Barnes Miller -- The death of John Quincy Adams / Carl Sandburg -- For us, the living / Alexander Woollcott -- The second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- The Confederate army / John W. Thomason, Jr -- The first G.A.R. parade / Lloyd Lewis -- Three speeches / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr -- The Trawnbeighs / Charles M. Flandrau -- Thanksgiving proclamation / Wilbur L. Cross -- Mary White / William Allen White -- A wedding notice from the Fountain inn tribune / Robert Quillen -- A letter from Nicola Sacco to his son -- Mon pays / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Coon hunt / E.B. White --A visit to London / Frank Sullivan -- The turtle / Ogden Nash -- The Norse travel again / W.L. White -- First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A talk to young men / Robert C. Benchley -- P.S. he got the job / Anonymous -- The new colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Inscription on the tomb of the unknown soldier ; FINE/VG. Julian Brazleton (illustrator). Book.…

8vo. [20 pp (unpaginated).], w/ colour-illustrated borders throughout, numerous illustrations, 1 in colour, 1 double-page. Dark purple coloured softcovers, raised embossed decoration of California bear standing atop San Francisco, w/ arrow, and date embossed in blind, yapp fore-edges (minor shipping, edgewear, minor sunning to fore-edges), still VG- copy, from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this uncommon and nicely printed anthology of poetry organized by two San Francisco businessmen, MacLafferty & Taylor along with the Bolte & Braden printing Co. to celebrate the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. Featured alongside Bret Harte & Joaquin Miller are poems by California women poets, Ina Coolbrith (1841-1928), a co-editor of the Overland Monthly, and the first woman to become an honorary member of the Bohemian Club, became California's first poet laureate in 1915; and Hester Benedict Dickinson (1838-1921) who was a founder of the California Writers Club, and served as president of the Pacific Coast Women's Press Assoc. The work was originally issued as a banquet souvenir held in Feb., 1911 at the Riggs House, Washington, D.C.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. [1896] to 1903. The Autograph Edition, complete in 20 volumes. One of 350 numbered sets, signed by Harte. Illustrated with photogravures. Each volume with a fine engraved frontispiece and engraved extra title. Illustrations by Remington, Flagg, Alice Barber Stephens, W.L. Taylor, E. Boyd Smith, and others, all on India paper mounted and with captioned tissue guards. Each volume with at least one plate signed by the illustrator. Large 8vo ¾ crimson morocco over marbled boards; marbled endpapers. Spines with raised bands and gilt frames in compartments. A fine set. 0. Remington, Flagg, Alice Barber Stephens, W.L. Taylor, E. Boyd Smith, and others, (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator(s). …

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Be empowered to advocate for excellence in Third Culture Kid (TCK) care. This groundbreaking book developed by the TCK Care Accreditation Board presents the comprehensive Standards of Care framework-drawing on the collective wisdom of dozens of experienced TCK professionals from organizations of all sizes. For the first time, organizations have clear benchmarks for the quality of care they should provide to TCK families. If you're seeking to enhance your organization's approach to TCK care, this essential guide will illuminate your path forward. Written by leading experts in the field, the book examines 16 fundamental categories of quality care, offering deep insights into the reasoning and importance behind each standard. When parents encounter these standards, many respond, "I didn't know I was allowed to want this level of care for my family." Setting the Standard marks a turning point in TCK care, making it clear that the era of inadequate support must end. The time has come for organizations to recognize Third Culture Kids as valuable constituents deserving of intentional, exceptional care. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…