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Free eBooks – My Reading List (ad nauseum)

WEB DESIGN

Designing for the Web
Mobile Book of Trends 2014
The 2014 Mobile E-Commerce Strategy Playbook
Web Design Book of Trends 2013-2014
The Guide to Wireframing
Who’s There?
Knock Knock
North
The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design

TYPOGRAPHY

Type Classification Handbook
Erik Spiekermann’s Typo Tips
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

USER EXPERIENCE

Access by Design
Web Accessibility Checklist
The User Experience Guide Book for Project Managers
Mobile UI Design Patterns 2014
Introduction to Good Usability
UX Storytellers
Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design
UX Design for Startups
Designing Mobile Interfaces
Designing Interfaces
Converting the Believers
The Fable of the User-Centered Designer
Building Accessible Websites
Task-Centered User Interface Design
25-point Website Usability Checklist
Six Circles: An Experience Design Framework
Search User Interfaces
50 User Experience Best Practices
Usability Issues in Web Site Design

WEB DEVELOPMENT

Book of Speed
Pro Git
Git from the Bottom up
Git Pocket Guide
Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
Web Audio API
A Byte of Vim
Continuous Delivery

HTML & CSS

Dive into HTML5
HTML5 Canvas
Writing Maintainable CSS

JAVASCRIPT

Eloquent JavaScript
jQuery Fundamentals
JavaScript Enlightenment
Learning JavaScript Design Patterns
Programming JavaScript Applications

RUBY PROGRAMMING

Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book
Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
Learn to Program
Learn Ruby the Hard Way
Ruby Study Notes
Ruby Essentials
Ruby in Twenty Minutes
Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide
Ruby User’s Guide
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Ruby
The Little Book of Ruby
Introduction to Programming with Ruby
Ruby on Rails Tutorial
Ruby on Rails Guides

STARTUPS & BUSINESS

The Personal MBA
Getting Real
The Art of the Start
The Bootstrapper’s Bible
The Micropreneur Manifesto
How Unplanning Your Business Can Make It Happen Faster
Ninja Innovation
How to be an Idea Guru
Make It Happen: Turning Good Ideas into Great Results
The Six Rules Women Must Break in Order to Succeed
The Freak Factor: Discovering Uniqueness by Flaunting Weakness
Connected Intelligence: Leveraging Collective Wisdom

SALES & MARKETING

111 Ridiculously Obvious Thoughts on Selling
Perfecting Your Pitch
Self-Promotion for Introverts
5 Secrets of Sales Superstars
Build Your Brand in Bits and Bytes
8 Tips for Managing Your Personal Brand
Brainwashed: Seven Ways to Reinvent Yourself
The Thought Leader Manifesto
The Complete Guide to Building Your Personal Brand
The Essential Step-by-Step Guide to Internet Marketing

OTHERS

The First 20 Hours
The Fascination Factor
Who’s Got Your Back?
The Self-Publishing Revolution
Pushing Through the Dip

12 Suggestions to Help Improve your Quality of Life

I’ve decided to begin REIXEN on a personal note by offering up some advice to those, like me, who desperately need to rework their response patterns to stressors in their daily life. Yesterday, while on an evening stroll, this subject spun through my mind, and instead of selfishly hoarding my thoughts, I decided that sharing them may be of benefit to others. These are points that I am integrating into my life as of now to form better habits in the hope of eventually overcoming increasingly high anxiety levels and communication deficits.

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