books about: high-performance     books:       A Twist of the Wrist 2: The Basics of High-Performance Motorcycle Riding87 reviews Keith Code Code Break, 1997 Must Read! I thought I was a pretty good rider, 29 years of experience riding all kinds of bikes - but had never taken an advanced rider class. While reading this book, I quickly realized how many mistakes I had been making. E.g., over the years I had figured out most of the steps involved with making a turn as described in the book, but I did not have ALL the steps figured out - there were some CRUCIAL ...             The Paleo Diet for Athletes: A Nutritional Formula for Peak Athletic Performance20 reviews Loren Cordain, Joe Friel Rodale Books, 2005 "A great diet and exercise book not just for paleolithic Highly informative for all athletes and people wanting to exercise on a regular basis. Basically it teaches you what, when and how to eat your food so that you get the maximun performance. It also has specific advice on fluids. If you are planning to do regular execise, this is a highly recommended book, even if you are not planning to follow the paleo diet strictly.             Zag: The Number One Strategy of High-Performance Brands22 reviews Marty Neumeier Peachpit Press, 2006 Zag Zag Zigidy Zag de Zag Knocked this one out in a single flight. Well written, easy to follow. Maybe a little too easy. Would have liked a little more meat. Consider this the Cliff's Notes to Differentiate or Die. Both great books, this is easier to digest. Neumeier is a brand genius, he gets it and he can present it well in a concise format.             The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization (Collins Business Essentials)18 reviews Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith Collins Business, 2003 How to form high-performance teams What's nice about Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith's book is their willingness to name the truth. They know that everyone pays lip service to teams, but few people act like they truly value teams - and fewer still actually know how teams really work. The authors point out where the hype lies and what it is hiding. Then they go a step farther. They provide a manual for creating what ...             Total Control: High Performance Street Riding Techniques56 reviews Lee Parks Motorbooks, 2003 Best book for sport bike turning and speed control! If you ride a sport bike and want to learn to lean it correctly/safely around curves, fast without jerks and changes in the arch, this is the best specialized book for you! Learn about the common reasons people crash like you have never heard it before--why we panic and what that causes, which ultimately results in a crash. And how to overcome it! Great book.             High Performance with High Integrity (Memo to the Ceo) (Memo to the Ceo) (Memo to the Ceo) (Memo to the Ceo) ...6 reviews Ben W., Jr. Heineman Harvard Business School Press, 2008 Essential Reading "I am certain this will become a classic. It is central message is important, new, crystal clear, compelling and I think inspiring. It is a mature and forceful book. The key points are driven home by understandable examples (which are sometimes themselves a wake up call e.g. the reference to "side letters" as "red flags" in financial deals). The recommendations are practical and actionable. ...             High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, ... O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008 High Performance MySQL is the definitive guide to building fast, reliable systems with MySQL. Written by noted experts with years of real-world experience building very large systems, this book covers every aspect of MySQL performance in detail, and focuses on robustness, security, and data integrity. High Performance MySQL teaches you advanced techniques in depth so you can bring out MySQL's full power. Learn how to design schemas, indexes, ...             The Solar Food Dryer: How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator5 reviews Eben V. Fodor New Society Publishers, 2006 Killer Book, a MUST HAVE for the Homemaker/Homesteader! If you do any kind of homemaking, preserving, growing of your own food, etc., then you absolutely need to get this book! This will give you low-cost and realistic way to preserve your food naturally and in a way that keeps it tasting great! The step-by-step instructions for building the author's food dryer are top-notch and easy to follow, even for the non-mechanically inclined. My only ...             The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal80 reviews Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz Free Press, 2004 Manage your energy, not your time This book explains how managing your energy, not your time, is far more productive. Focusing on the 4 elements of power usage/renewal (spiritual, mental, physical and emotional) can help you become a more productive professional, no matter your field. The idea of renewal, that we all need pause, from micro pauses (taking a deep breath and closing your eyes), to sustained removals (two-week ...             High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers28 reviews Steve Souders O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007 Optimizing the front-end experience When conversation turns to performance, we often focus on the database, application servers, or a multitude of other backend processes, and completely forget about the front-end: CSS, JavaScript, filesizes, conditional requests, and request pipelining. In this book, Steve Souders documents the best practices for optimizing your front-end experience, which can often yield significant improvements ...             Schaum's Outline of Geometry9 reviews Barnett Rich McGraw-Hill, 1999 Excellent if you need a refresher course in geometry I found myself needing to review geometry for the SAT and needed a succinct, clear, and accurate guide. This outline has more than exceeded my expectations. By the time I worked through most of the problems in this book, my geometry skills had doubled and the SAT geometry was relatively easy. I highly reccomend this book as either a refresher guide or as a textbook.             Turbo: Real-World High-Performance Turbocharger Systems (Sa Design) (Sa Design) Jay K. Miller Car Tech, 2008 Turbo: Building and Tuning Turbocharger Systems for Maximum Horsepower is the most complete, detailed, up-to-date resource on anything and everything to do with turbos. Whether you're running gas or diesel, 4,6,8, or more cylinders, this book will teach you to design, test, install, and maintain your high-performance turbo system. Learn how turbochargers work, how to choose the right turbo or turbos for your engine by reading flow maps, and how ...             Schaum's Outline of Russian Grammar24 reviews James S. Levine McGraw-Hill, 1999 making russian easier I had purchased this gramma book for myself over a year ago. Found explanations and exercises strengthened by Russian skills. Only let down being there was not a dictionary in the back of the text for the words used throughout. Nevertheless this is a very useful text to have and therefore purchased an identical copy for a very dear friend who is doing Russian.             Building & Tuning High-Performance Electronic Fuel Injection20 reviews Ben Strader S-A Design, 2004 Very good reading I can highly recommend this book. It is written in such a way that you will enjoy learning about the subject at hand. It is not overly complicated at all and has helped me understand a lot of things that I `thought' I already knew. The second half of the book is dedicated to an in depth look at what different companies have on offer ECU wise and the pro and cons of each one. This is all done in ...             Schaum's Outline of Digital Signal Processing (Schaum's)14 reviews Monson H. Hayes McGraw-Hill, 1998 Excellent Refreshing supplement for revision This book is a carefully written one which will enable any student to revise thoroughly before DSP exam. It has an outstanding collection of solved problems like most other Schaum's outlines. This book is to be used as a supplement book to any standard DSP book like Oppenheim or Proakis & Manolakis. This book can make quite a lot of difference in final grades of most of students. So, it is ...             The Consultant's Toolkit: High-Impact Questionnaires, Activities and How-to Guides for Diagnosing and Solving ...10 reviews Mel Silberman McGraw-Hill, 2000 Valuable Book This is a wonderful book that combines the expertise of a wide range of experts in the consulting field. Due to the different styles of the authors, the reader is bound to find several that really address their concerns. The book is a useful toolkit as it has templates that one can easily adapt to meet their needs. Most of the common consulting problems are addressed. Among the readily ...             Schaum's Outline of Linear Algebra25 reviews Seymour Lipschutz, Marc Lipson McGraw-Hill, 2000 Excellent summary I wanted to brush up on Eigenvalues for a compression algorithm and this was the perfect way to efficienctly recall everything from college. Very useful and succinct.             Harvard Business Review on Becoming a High-Performance Manager2 reviews Harvard Business School Press Harvard Business School Press, 2002 Not a recipe, but a collection of ideas This review is supposed to tell the potential reader what to expect from this book, based on the confession that I highly recommend reading this book. This book is NOT A RECIPE. If you look for a "recipe" as to how to become a high performance manager, I would recommend Stephen Covey's classic on the 7 habits of highly effective people. This book IS a perfect checklist to compare your ...             The Heart of Coaching: Using Transformational Coaching to Create a High-Performance Coaching Culture (3rd ...19 reviews Thomas G. Crane F T A Press, 2007 Relational Guide to High-Performance In this three-part relational guide for the development of "a performance-focused, feedback-rich organization", consultant Tom Crane offers the reader his insights on three aspects of transformational coaching; the model, the coach, and the culture. The unifying theme, the heart drives relationships, and relationships drive performance, is evidenced by the title of the book and the statement, "If ...             One Helluva Ride: How NASCAR Swept the Nation12 reviews Liz Clarke Villard, 2008 great, fun race stories If you'd like to learn about the history of racing but want it on a more personal level, this is the book for you to read.              search for books activities, consultant, dehydrator, diagnosing, electronic, engagement, engineers, essential, essentials, front-end, high-impact, high-performance, injection, integrity, knowledge, managing, motorcycle, nutritional, optimization, organization, performance, problems, processing, questionnaires, real-world, replication, sun-powered, techniques, transformational, turbocharger books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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