In this book, a top Republican and Democratic economist explain why Obama’s economic policies are failing…and offer a commonsense blueprint for re-igniting long-term growth and prosperity for all Americans. They show how to overhaul the tax system, increase business investment, slash government spending, control entitlements, and even rebuild American manufacturing.

To earn profits in the coming decade, you must understand two enormous trends reshaping global markets: the growth of emerging economies and accelerating influence of sovereign wealth funds. This book reveals the hidden story of growing state investment power, and offers 70+ specific, timely investment recommendations flowing from it.

Don’t Let Software Failures Destroy Your Business

The growing impact of software failures on brands, customers, and business performance
How to govern software more effectively, prepare for glitches, and mitigate their impact
By Jeff Papows, Ph.D., one of the world’s most experienced software executives

In this course, students will learn to configure and manage a Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 messaging environment. This course will teach students guidelines, best practices, and considerations that will help them optimize their Exchange server deployment. Course 20341 is an instructor-led course and will provide you with the knowledge and skills to plan, install, and manage the mailbox role, client access, transport, and Exchange infrastructure.

In this new paperback edition of the classic bestseller, you’ll be taken on a hilarious, fast-paced ride through the history of ideas. Author Scott Berkun will show you how to transcend the false stories that many business experts, scientists, and much of pop culture foolishly use to guide their thinking about how ideas change the world. With four new chapters on putting the ideas in the book to work, updated references and over 50 corrections and improvements, now is the time to get past the myths, and change the world.

Whether you’ve already used an iPad or you’re starting from a blank slate, Take Control editor-in-chief Tonya Engst helps you patch the blank spots in your basic iPad know-how. She walks those who haven’t yet made the leap through deciding which iPad and accessories to buy, after which she helps you understand the iPad’s buttons and ports, learn multi-touch gestures, download apps, sync data and media, find your stuff, and avoid newbie mistakes. The ebook wraps up with a discussion of how to impress your friends with a great iPad demo!

The basics of networking an iPad are simple, but once you move beyond connecting to a simple home Wi-Fi network or using 3G data, you’ll want to read networking expert Glenn Fleishman’s discussion of how to integrate your iPad into more-complex networks and keep its data safe from prying eyes. Along with advice about Wi-Fi, 3G, and Bluetooth networking, Glenn explains how to transfer documents to and from the iPad using a variety of apps and techniques, how to protect your data in transit and on the iPad itself, how you can control computers remotely from your iPad, and more.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s an iPad, and while it may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, the iPad is a lean, mean, media machine for reading books, listening to music, watching videos, viewing photos, controlling iTunes and your Apple TV, and more. Jeff Carlson, our most media-savvy author, explains how to purchase or acquire ebooks to read in iBooks and helps you understand the subtleties of iBooks.

Want to get some real work done on your iPad? Joe Kissell helps you find and use the best productivity apps and techniques. Whether you’d like to run your office from an easy chair, take meeting notes on your iPad, or edit and create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more you while you’re travelling light, Joe’s real-world advice helps you adopt the right mindset and make the most of your iPad.

There’s been plenty of hype about the “netroots,” and online activism on both the right and left. But most of it’s been celebratory, not practical. This is a practical, start to finish guide to promoting any cause and participating in any social movement on the social Web.