Path is to XML as SQL is to databases: XML applications need XPath to locate specific data within an XML document for further processing with other XML applications such as XSLT, XQuery, XPointer, XLink and DOM level 3. With XPath, these applications offer developers a full toolkit for transforming, linking, and searching XML data. Developers need to understand XPath to fully exploit XML in their applications, and they have few resources beyond the W3C specification. XPath Kick Start will examine every aspect of XPath in detail, including its influence on and use with these other XML standards.

With each technique illustrated with real-world examples, the book starts with coverage of the essentials of XPath, including nodes, expressions, functions and operators. The second half of the book details XPath in practice - from manipulating XML data to transforming, linking and querying XML documents.

This is the book that revolutionized the natural sciences and every literary, philosophical and religious thinker who followed. Darwin's theory of evolution and the descent of man remains as controversial and influential today as when it was published over a century ago.

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Effective time management is one of today's most overlooked–yet essential –keys to career growth in business and management. Time Management provides hands-on techniques and tools for making every minute count as it dispels myths that can actually cost instead of save valuable time. It helps managers match the right time-saving tool to each situation, reveals secrets for anticipating instead of reacting, and explains how any manager can eliminate procrastination.

Through case studies and personal studies, you’ll learn:

How to sell yourself
What should you charge?
How to keep clients for life
How to manage budgets
How to hire and fire employees

Your average client can’t determine the difference between a good and a bad website. They can’t really look at your portfolio and say: “This person makes profitable web sites.” Instead, they consider other factors when evaluating you for the job. For example: recommendations from other people, the quality of your brochure, the way you dress or simply your handshake. In the kit, Brendon shows how to make the client very confident that you are the best choice they can make.

Every person's body language very often reveals that what they say is different from what they think or feel. It is a scientific fact that people's gestures give away their true intentions. Everyday we are confronted by hundreds of different signals that can mean anything from "That's a great idea" to "You must be kidding".  And we are all sending out these signals whether we realise it or not.

This Book Shows

How to make a positive impression on others
How to interview and negotiate successfully
How to bond quickly and get others to co-operate
How to tell if someone is lying
How to read between the lines of what is said
How to use body language to get what you want
How to recognize love-signs and power-plays

Body Language adds a new dimension to human communication. It is a must for anybody whose business or personal life involves face-to-face interaction with other people.
 

Whether you believe it or not, you are naturally creative; the secret lies in knowing how to tap into your inner creativity. Secrets from the Innovation Room takes the mystery out of the creative process, describing a new way of thinking you can use to produce fresh, practical, money-making ideas guaranteed to revolutionize your firm’s strategies and products and drive its growth.

Secrets from the Innovation Room details proven techniques for producing high-voltage concepts from your right brain, then using your left brain to shape them into useful solutions. This thought-stimulating guidebook features:

The 10 Enemies of Innovation—how to recognize and avoid them
Brainstorming techniques for “graphing” proposals and ideas in order to evaluate which address the stated problem and which fall by the wayside
Tangible steps for going beyond market research to determine what could be—and what you could do to help your organization make it happen
A new innovation process for identifying valuable brand imagery and then for coming up with tangible product features that bring it to life

Secrets from the Innovation Room shows you how to bring your natural creativity to the forefront by implementing a step-by-step process for producing exceptional and profitable ideas—whenever, wherever, and “whyever” you need them.

When I came out with "What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense" in January 2005, I never imagined that it would become so popular. Since that time, I have released a second edition, several other ebooks, a member site, a telecourse series and find myself booked for multiple speaking engagements. Life is funny…

Today marks another milestone for me as I am pleased to announce the revised and expanded third edition of my AdSense ebook, known also by it's shorter (and easier to say) name, Google AdSense Secrets.

The 199-page third edtion is absolutely packed with AdSense goodness! It features the latest AdSense updates that deal with issues such as smart pricing and section targeting. It contains extended chapters on getting traffic to your site and how to get started with AdSense. And I've included even more case studies to provide real-life examples of AdSense done properly. The goal is to help my readers pick more money off the Google tree. And it seems to be working.