Learn how to code while you write programs that effortlessly perform useful feats of automation!
The second edition of this international fan favorite includes a brand-new chapter on input validation, Gmail and Google Sheets automations, tips for updating CSV files, and more.
If you’ve ever spent hours renaming files or updating spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you? Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd Edition teaches even the technically uninclined how to write programs that do in minutes what would take hours to do by hand—no prior coding experience required!
This new, fully revised edition of Al Sweigart’s bestselling Pythonic classic, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, covers all the basics of Python 3 while exploring its rich library of modules for performing specific tasks, like scraping data off the Web, filling out forms, renaming files, organizing folders, sending email responses, and merging, splitting, or encrypting PDFs. There’s also a brand-new chapter on input validation, tutorials on automating Gmail and Google Sheets, tips on automatically updating CSV files, and other recent feats of automations that improve your efficiency.
Detailed, step-by-step instructions walk you through each program, allowing you to create useful tools as you build out your programming skills, and updated practice projects at the end of each chapter challenge you to improve those programs and use your newfound skills to automate similar tasks. Boring tasks no longer have to take to get through—and neither does learning Python!
शरत् बाबू मस्तिष्क से अधिक हृदय को छूते हैं। ममतामयी नारी की वेदना का तो उन्होंने ऐसा हृदय-द्रावक चित्र अपनी कृतियों में प्रस्तुत किया है कि पाठक को बरबस रुलाई आ जाती है। न जाने पीड़ा से उन्हें क्यों इतना प्यार है। वे पात्रों के दुख-दर्द को पाठक के हृदय में उतार देते हैं। मंझली दीदी-बड़ी दीदी उनकी ऐसी ही मार्मिक रचना है। इस कहानी पर एक उत्कृष्ट फिल्म का निर्माण मंझली दीदी के नाम से हो चुका है।
एक बुद्धपुरुष का विद्रोही बचपन बुद्धों की जीवनी लिखी नहीं जा सकती, क्योंकि उनके जीवन के इतने रहस्यपूर्ण बेबूझ तल होते हैं कि वे सब उनके आचरण में प्रतिबिंबित नहीं होते। जीवनी होती है किसी भी व्यक्ति के आस – पास घटी हुई घटनाओं का दस्तावेज़, उन घटनाओं की व्याख्या। अब एक जाग्रत चेतना के आचरण की व्याख्या सोए लोग कैसे करें। प्रबुद्ध पुरुषों की आत्मकथा यदि कोई लिख सकता है, तो वे स्वयं, लेकिन वे लिखते नहीं, क्योंकि उनके लिए उनका बाह्य जीवन एक स्वप्न से अधिक कुछ नहीं है। उनके भीतर विराजमान समयातीत चेतना को समय के भीतर घटने वाली छोटी – मोटी घटनाओं से कोई सरोकार नहीं। ओशो जैसे विद्रोही और आध्यात्मिक क्रान्तिकारी को समझना तो और भी मुश्किल है। बचपन में उन्होंने जो कारनामे किए, उन्हें एक मन में जीने वाला व्यक्ति करता है, तो उस पर शैतान होने का इलज़ाम लगाया जा सकता था, लेकिन जब जाग्रत उन्हें करता है, तो उसके मायने बिल्कुल बदल जाते हैं। इसे ध्यान में रखकर यह किताब पढ़ी जाए, तो ओशो के बचपन की झलकें हमें हमारा अपना जीवन समझने में मदद कर सकती हैं।
‘This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life.’
Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whistle-stop tour of the inner cosmos. It’s a journey that will take you into the world of extreme sports, criminal justice, genocide, brain surgery, robotics, and the search for immortality. On the way, amidst the infinitely dense tangle of brain cells and their trillions of connections, something emerges that you might not have expected to see: you.
Competing with the Best offers the blueprint of being a successful corporation, in India and elsewhere. It remarkably brings together the research and practice of management—that have drifted far apart—and outlines the viable strategies and organization designs for corporations, and the ways of configuring them for success. These have proven effective in a variety of contexts, including for most of the cases in the book, by standing the test of time for well over a decade. The book remains a world-class work on strategic management from India and makes up for the lull globally in breakthrough thinking in this area since the 1990s. It will be an indispensable resource for senior executives, researchers and students alike.
A beautifully designed slipcase containing five of the greatest novels ever written in English.
The Best of Vintage Classics Collection is a boxset of five of the greatest novels ever written in English. Discover a satire of the madness of war, a genre-bending literary quest, a visionary dystopia, a tortured love affair and a gangster thriller – all the finest examples of their genre. This is a selection of must-read classic books.
Contains:
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER!
Includes a 30-Day fasting reset that uses the power of your cycle—even if you no longer have one!
A go-to fasting manual created specifically to address women’s needs based on their hormones and menstrual cycle by Dr. Mindy Pelz, a well-known expert on women and fasting, whose fast-growing YouTube channel has become the destination for women who want to learn about fasting.
Are you among the many women who feel unheard and unseen by their doctors and health professionals? Have you become exhausted by the promise of quick-fix diets that only leave you disappointed? Well in Fast Like a Girl, Dr. Mindy helps you to take back control of your health by using the quickest path back to better health—fasting.
While most fasting advice has been a one-size-fits-all approach that leaves women with more questions than answers, in this book Dr. Mindy shares the proven strategies, specific protocols to use if you are trying to overcome a condition, fasting hacks, and tools that she has used to help hundreds of thousands of women thrive with their fasting lifestyles.
Dr. Mindy will teach you:
• the rights steps on how to go from eating all day to intermittent fasting (13-15 hours)
• how to safely fast longer if you choose to do so (15-72 hours)
• how to time fasting according to your menstrual cycle (although if you don’t have a cycle, she has you covered)
• the best foods to break your fast to achieve better metabolic health
This book also includes more than 50 recipes based on the two food plans—ketobiotic and hormone feasting—she created to best support women’s hormones. And, it has recipes specifically created to break a fast such as her Coconut Cacao Chia Pudding.
Inspired by the thousands of women she has worked with who have reclaimed their health with fasting, Dr. Mindy wrote this book because, “once a woman knows how to build a fasting lifestyle around her cycle, she becomes unstoppable.”
For readers of Madeleine Miller and Natalie Haynes comes the story of the most infamous monster of Greek mythology: Medusa.
First, they loved her. Then, they abused her. Finally, they made her a villain.
Gifted and burdened with stunning beauty, young Medusa seeks sanctuary with the Goddess Athena. But when she catches the eye of the lecherous but mighty Poseidon, she is beyond protection. Powerful men rarely answer for their actions, after all.
Meanwhile, Perseus embarks on a seemingly impossible quest, equipped with only bravado and determination…
Medusa and Perseus soon become pawns of spiteful and selfish gods. Faced with the repercussions of Athena’s wrath, blamed for her assault, Medusa has no choice but to flee and hide. But can she do so without becoming the monster they say she is?
Medusa’s truth has long been lost. History tells of conquering heroes, of men with hearts of gold. Now it is time to hear the story of how history treats women who don’t comply.
Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics
A renowned economic historian traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home.
A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever before, and more women want to have a career and family, yet challenges persist at work and at home. This book traces how generations of women have responded to the problem of balancing career and family as the twentieth century experienced a sea change in gender equality, revealing why true equity for dual career couples remains frustratingly out of reach.
Drawing on decades of her own groundbreaking research, Claudia Goldin provides a fresh, in-depth look at the diverse experiences of college-educated women from the 1900s to today, examining the aspirations they formed—and the barriers they faced—in terms of career, job, marriage, and children. She shows how many professions are “greedy,” paying disproportionately more for long hours and weekend work, and how this perpetuates disparities between women and men. Goldin demonstrates how the era of COVID-19 has severely hindered women’s advancement, yet how the growth of remote and flexible work may be the pandemic’s silver lining.
Antidiscrimination laws and unbiased managers, while valuable, are not enough. Career and Family explains why we must make fundamental changes to the way we work and how we value caregiving if we are ever to achieve gender equality and couple equity.
‘मैं केवल यह कहना चाहती थी कि आप मेरा शरीर ले सकते हैं, लेकिन मेरा मन नहीं ले सकते, यह कभी आपका न हो सकेगा।’ नवेली वधू के मुख से ये शब्द सुनकर हरिदत्त की जो दशा हुई, उसे बयान नहीं किया जा सकता, उसने उफ तक न की, लेकिन उसने वह कर दिखाया, जो आज तक न कभी देखा था, न सुना था।
मनुष्य क्या से क्या हो सकता है, इस उपन्यास में यह बहुत ही कुशलता के साथ दर्शाया गया है।
