If you want to learn 3D modeling and animation design, but are unable to afford the Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya such kind of 3D modeling or animation software costing thousands of dollars, then the very popular, free, and open-source Blender is currently the best choice for you. However, the available books or any tutorials written for Blender have been always scarce, really not systematic, and incomplete all the time, until the day Blender For Dummies, 3rd Edition comes out.

Linux is cool not just because it's free and open-source, more often than not, that's because it's so powerful. For example, it is used to build large servers with high performance and high stability; to make the old computers bloom; as desktop or office operating system for individual users or enterprise users, and more. I think any users who are interested in computers, somewhat get tired of Windows, and want to try some new OS, they may want to begin to reach the mysterious Linux operating system. But if you want to make learning Linux easy, you really need a good book for the level of beginners.

The Mono for Android launched by Novell is the industry's first solution using Microsoft Visual Studio to plan, build and develop Microsoft .NET based applications for Android platform. Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET / C# teaches you the Android application programming knowledge in a comprehensive and thorough way, including discussing how to combine the use of C# and Mono for Android to write applications run on all kinds of Android devices.

For self-hosted blogs/websites using CMS building platforms, WordPress has defeated all the competitors, and thus became the king in fact. The key to its success lies in the flexible and powerful plugin & theme extending system.

Beginning C# Programming with Visual Studio is a latest step-by-step beginner's guide for learning the C# and .NET Framework programming techniques using Visual Studio 2015 from scratch. It can lay a solid foundation for you to write excellent Windows programs.