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Python Crash Course, 3rd Edition: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming

Python Crash Course is the world’s bestselling programming book, with over 1,500,000 copies sold to date!

Python Crash Course is the world’s best-selling guide to the Python programming language. This fast-paced, thorough introduction will have you writing programs, solving problems, and developing functioning applications in no time.

You’ll start by learning basic programming concepts, such as variables, lists, classes, and loops, and practice writing clean code with exercises for each topic. You’ll also learn how to make your programs interactive and test your code safely before adding it to a project. You’ll put your new knowledge into practice by creating a Space Invaders–inspired arcade game, building a set of data visualizations with Python’s handy libraries, and deploying a simple application online.

As you work through the book, you’ll learn how to:
Use powerful Python libraries and tools, including pytest, Pygame, Matplotlib, Plotly, and Django
Make increasingly complex 2D games that respond to keypresses and mouse clicks
Generate interactive data visualizations using a variety of datasets
Build apps that allow users to create accounts and manage their own data, and deploy your apps online
Troubleshoot coding errors and solve common programming problems

New to this edition: This third edition is completely revised to reflect the latest in Python code. New and updated coverage includes VS Code for text editing, the pathlib module for file handling, pytest for testing your code, as well as the latest features of Matplotlib, Plotly, and Django.

If you’ve been thinking about digging into programming, Python Crash Course will provide you with the skills to write real programs fast. Why wait any longer? Start your engines and code!

Covers Python 3.x

Crosswinds

From the author of the Ramnath Goenka Award-winning book, The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India

The establishment of a communist regime in China upended Western plans for the post-WWII Asian order. As the United States of America and Great Britain grappled with the implications of this new China in terms of their strategic and economic interests in the western Pacific, significant divergences also emerged. A newly independent India seeking to define its place and role in the region under conditions of Cold War was hoping to enlist China as partner.

This book, based on archival material, outlines India’s efforts to craft a foreign policy in the context of the Anglo–American competition in the Far East. The roles played by the towering personalities of that era—Jawaharlal Nehru, Zhou Enlai, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Krishna Menon—and the personal chemistry between them are woven into the narrative to paint a picture of the nuts and bolts of Indian diplomacy during the early years of the nation.

Romancero gitano

Cada literatura tiene sus formas privilegiadas de composición, así el romance en la literatura española e hispanoamericana cuenta con una larga tradición que lo enlaza con los cantares populares más antiguos. Un tipo de composición poética, de carácter narrativo, formada por versos de ocho sílabas en la que riman los versos impares.

Federico García Lorca (Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, 1898-Granada, 1936) es uno de los poetas españoles del siglo xx perteneciente a la Generación del 27 más celebrados y queridos, por su vida y por la intensidad e importancia de su obra, y el Romancero gitano es uno de sus poemarios más famosos. En él tradición y vanguardia, tragedia e ironía, barbarie y solidaridad, vida y muerte se conjugan en versos donde se cuentan historias que comparten el protagonismo con la luna que baja a la fragua, el viento sátiro que persigue las faldas de Preciosa, las estrellas que clavan rejones en el agua gris y las piquetas de los gallos que cavan buscando la aurora. Versos llenos de misterio poético y duende. De la génesis del Romancero dirá García Lorca: “Quiero hacer este verano una obra serena y quieta; pienso construir varios romances con lagunas, romances con montañas, romances con estrellas; una obra misteriosa y clara, que sea como una flor”.

En el Romancero gitano se da una inmejorable conjunción para comenzar la difusión del español en el sistema educativo indio, y para llegar a todos los lectores de la India que se quieran acercar a estas páginas. Esta edición viene acompañada con una magnífica introducción de Luis García Montero que esclarece puntos esenciales de la obra y aporta una luminosa lectura del romancero lorquiano.

Don Quijote de la Mancha

“Celebrar una nueva edición de Don Quijote de la Mancha supone presentar lo mejor de la historia española y uno de los grandes episodios de la cultura occidental, una cultura abierta, sólo válida cuando sabe dialogar con las otras culturas. Los clásicos se mantienen vivos porque nos ayudan a comprender el pasado, pero también porque saben relacionarse con el presente y seguir conversando con el mundo.

Las aventuras de este libro y los diálogos entre don Quijote y Sancho nos invitan a seguir hablando sobre los destinos del ser humano, los retos que hay en cada conflicto y en cada decisión, las bondades y los peligros de la convivencia, la manera que tiene el amor de iluminar el mundo o de inducir a engaños, la responsabilidad que late en cada uno de nuestros actos. Porque, al final, es la ética humana y el compromiso con la justicia lo que nos conmueve en cada episodio, ya sea fruto de un error o de la lucidez, de una ilusión certera o de un equívoco. Las lejanas llanuras de la Mancha aspiran a convertirse en un lugar habitable para cualquier lector, más allá de los kilómetros y los siglos”. – Luis García Montero

Make Epic Money

In his groundbreaking book Do Epic Shit, Warikoo dropped this truth bomb: ‘Three relationships determine our life’s course – time, money, and ourselves.’

Now, in his third book, Make Epic Money, he dives deep into the complex world of money to provide you with the ultimate personal-finance blueprint. Drawing on a lifetime of experience of financial highs and lows, he shares everything he has learnt about money that he wishes someone had taught him when he was young.

Prepare to unlock the secrets to financial well-being with this no-nonsense guide. Say goodbye to confusing jargon and hello to practical advice. Discover how to earn, spend and make your money work just as hard for you as you do for it.

Feathers, Fools and Farts: Folktales from Manipur

Be warned.

These ten wacky stories in Feathers, Fools, and Farts: Manipuri Folktales Retold from Manipur, perched on India’s border with Myanmar, are not for scaredy-cats.

Nor for those of you who do not enjoy a hearty laugh or a good cry. And if you try to copy the foolishness of the characters, animal and human, in these folktales, you just might turn into a tiger, get stung by a swarm of bees, or even get poo’ed on.

If, however, you believe in strange romances, admire bravery, and like magic and sorcery, this book is for you, wherever you are.

The Later Adventures of Hanuman | 40 fantastical tales of Hanuman’s adventures after the age of Rama | Mythological fiction

The day Hanuman watched his beloved Rama walk into the river Sarayu—at the end of an 11,000-year reign—was one of the most heartbreaking days of his life. Having been granted the boon of immortality, Hanuman is blessed to live on Earth as long as the Ramayana is told and remembered. And so, to heal his grief, he begins to travel all over the world and has many adventures, thrilling and unexpected, ensuring that the Ramayana is never forgotten.

In this collection of forty exciting tales, read how Hanuman, the monkey-god, vanquishes the thousand-headed Ahiravana, defeats a giant wasp-demoness, races with Garuda to see who is the fastest and has many other escapades.

Action-packed and fast-paced, these reimagined stories of chiranjeevi Hanuman’s later adventures are magical, heart-warming and bittersweet. Continuing the traditional folk practice of inventing adventures for Hanuman, Amit Majmudar takes us along on the monkey-god’s long and lonely, and rollickingly eventful, immortality.

Roadwalker

‘The length of India, though. Think of that. The magnitude of it takes my breath away, even months later. When next will I get such an opportunity? As the Yatra got going, through its early days in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, that question began to haunt me. Through those early days, the challenge of finding an answer came to mean something to me. Something deep, profound, elemental. The challenge of the walk, yes. But what it helped me articulate for myself, too. The way it dredged up long-ago experiences, reminded me of what they had meant, wrung new meaning from them now, said things about my country, my family, myself. All in all, it helped me decide — if I wasn’t doing the whole trip, there was a next best thing I could do.’

Dilip D’Souza joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra four times. This is the story of that experience. But even more, this is the story of how he found energy, empathy and enthusiasm in the Yatra. How it spoke to him of renewal. How it filled him, and many others, with hope. ‘This was my chance to make my own slice of personal history,’ he writes. ‘That was enough for me.’

Dukhwa Main Ka Se Kahoon/दुखवा मैं कासे कहूँ

हिन्द पॉकेट बुक्स ने हमारे युग के इस सर्वश्रेष्ठ गल्पकार आचार्य चतुरसेन की सम्पूर्ण कहानियों को सिलसिलेवार एक साथ प्रकाशित करने की योजना के अन्तर्गत 5 भागों में संकलित किया है। इन कहानियों की यह विशेषता है कि ये सर्वथा प्रामाणिक मूल पाठ हैं, जो सभी पाठकों के साथ-साथ हिन्दी कहानियों के अध्येताओं और शोधार्थियों के लिए भी महत्वपूर्ण हैं। ‘दुखवा मैं कासे कहूँ’ उनकी सम्पूर्ण कहानियों की दूसरी कड़ी है। इसमें 26 कहानियाँ दी गई हैं। सम्पूर्ण कहानियों का पहला भाग ‘बाहर-भीतर’ है। 

Kahani Khatam Ho Gai/कहानी ख़त्म हो गई

आधुनिक युग के सर्वश्रेष्ठ गल्पकार आचार्य चतुरसेन की सम्पूर्ण कहानियों को सिलसिलेवार एक साथ प्रकाशित करने की योजना के अन्तर्गत 5 भागों में संकलित किया गया है। इन संकलनों की यह विशेषता है कि ये कहानियाँ सर्वथा प्रामाणिक मूल – पाठ हैं, जो सभी पाठकों के साथ-साथ हिन्दी कहानियों के अध्येताओं और शोधार्थियों के लिए भी महत्त्वपूर्ण हैं। ‘कहानी ख़त्म हो गई’ सम्पूर्ण कहानियों की श्रृंखला की पाँचवीं एवं अंतिम कड़ी है। इसमें 24 कहानियाँ दी गई हैं, जो चतुरसेन के लेखन के शिखर को रेखांकित करती हैं। 

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