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Social innovation and social entrepreneurship look for creative and affordable solutions to specific societal problems. Fuelled by the spread of the internet and the ubiquity of mobile phones, there are more people working to solve pressing social and environmental problems in the world today than ever before. Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation presents the journeys of pioneering - and often accidental - social innovators who, faced with a problem, used their ...

Concise but thorough, this second edition of C# Essentials introduces the Microsoft C# programming language, including the Microsoft .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) and .NET Framework Class Libraries (FCL) that support it. This book?s compact format and terse presentation of key concepts serve as a roadmap to the online documentation included with the Microsoft .NET Framework SDK; the many examples provide much-needed context.This new edition has been updated to cover the final...

Boyd’s Commentary is a scholarly work that equips the teacher and edifies the student, enabling both to increase their knowledge of the Word of God. Its very special design allows the user to grasp, very quickly, the volume of information contained within. Its verse-by-verse format provides the best approach to preparation, presentation, and implementation of the principles. The information is doctrinally accurate. It is inductive in approach and international in appeal. Its purpose is to ...

Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every programmer should know, no matter what language you use. With the 97 short and extremely useful tips for programmers in this book, you'll expand your skills by adopting new approaches to old problems, learning appropriate best practices, and honing your craft through sound advice.With contributions from some of the most experienced and respected practitioners in the industry--including Michael Feathers, Pete Goodliffe, Diomidis Spi...

Thomas Watson was an English Puritan preacher in the 17th century. Watson was also a prolific writer and his devotionals are still well read today. This edition of The Doctrine of Repentance includes a table of contents.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the answer to the global crisis of business and American-style capitalism.Out of the ashes of conventional business models arises a set of companies using their power not only for profits and sustainable growth but also social good.If you think business corporations are doomed to be lumbering, bloated, and corrupt, think again.Based on an extraordinary three-year investigation, interviewing more than 350 key people at major companies around t...

With the award-winning book Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices, Robert C. Martin helped bring Agile principles to tens of thousands of Java and C++ programmers. Now .NET programmers have a definitive guide to agile methods with this completely updated volume from Robert C. Martin and Micah Martin, Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#.This book presents a series of case studies illustrating the fundamentals o...

This discussion guide will help you learn how to dialogue with those who share common doubts and objections to Christianity.In the video sessions (DVD/digital video sold separately), Timothy Keller and six panelists hold candid and unscripted discussions about the broad scope of people's discomforts with God, the Bible, and Christianity in general:Discussion 1: Is the Bible a myth? Has science disproved Christianity?Discussion 2: Is there on...

This book uses the learning-by-example approach. It takes simple examples from games to introduce all the main concepts of programming in an easy-to-digest and immediately recognizable way.This book is for the total beginner to any type of programming, focusing on the writing of C# code and scripts only. There are many parts that make up the Unity game engine. It is assumed that the reader already knows their way around Unity's user interface. The code editor used in this book is the MonoD...

Dig deep and master the intricacies of the common language runtime, C#, and .NET development. Led by programming expert Jeffrey Richter, a longtime consultant to the Microsoft .NET team - you’ll gain pragmatic insights for building robust, reliable, and responsive apps and components.Fully updated for .NET Framework 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012Delivers a thorough grounding in the .NET Framework architecture, runtime environment, and other key topics, including asynchr...

In his best-selling book, 24 Hours that Changed the World, pastor and popular author Adam Hamilton helped readers relive the one day in history that changed everything. Now, on this Special Edition Book and DVD package, Hamilton invites both readers and viewers to experience and understand the significance of Jesus’ final hours.Drawing on insights from history, archaeology, geography, and the Bible, Hamilton takes us to the Holy Land and provides a deeper understanding of the most ...

The Believe Adult Study Guide gives groups of all sizes the opportunity to learn, discuss, and apply what they experience in this 30-session journey through the Bible by exploring 30 essential beliefs, practices, and virtues that every Christian needs to know and live.Pastor and author Randy Frazee presents 30 ten-minute teachings on how the story of Scripture helps us think, act, and be like Jesus. You will explore a key question, Scripture, concept and application in eac...