books about: machines

books about: machines

books:

Machines

Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and ...

Melody Petersen

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

If you are a Baby Boomer you need to read this book
This is a great book. It communicates a lot of medical information in an interesting and informative manner. Like everything in life, the more informed you are the better decisions you can make. This book makes tobacco industry executives look like rank amateurs.

The Time Machine (Signet Classics)

H.G. Wells

New American Library, 2002

The epic tale of all time
H G Wells has awakened the world with his art of tale through the travel of time. He is the inspiration of every time travel writer in existence today, with no exception, myself included. Along with great classics like Twenty-thousand Leagues Under the Sea, I remember ...

Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

Toby Segaran

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

Great, simple presentation of some powerful techniques
Programming Collective Intelligence is a book about applying data mining techniques to analyse collections of data. There is submerged information in Ebay prices, in Facebook profile networks, in collections of movie reviews, in news sites, in the stockmarket; this ...

Betty Crocker's Best Bread Machine Cookbook: The Goodness of Homemade Bread the Easy Way

Betty Crocker Editors

Betty Crocker, 1999

Another wonderful book from Betty!
I just recently bought my first bread machine. When I was browsing, I came across this cookbook and bought it simply because I have always had good luck with my other Betty Crocker recipes. I love this book! It makes it so easy, especially for beginning bread ...

The Homework Machine

Dan Gutman

Aladdin, 2007

THE BEST BOOK EVER !!!!
The homework machine is a great book it is about a group of kids who become friends. They become friends by using a machine made to do homework codenamed Belch. The book is very very funny and knows just when to add humor to it. The only bad thing about this book is ...

Bend-the-Rules Sewing: The Essential Guide to a Whole New Way to Sew

Amy Karol

Potter Craft, 2007

experienced sewer learns new tricks
I learned to sew years ago--I made coats, suits, children's clothes--from patterns including designer Vogue. For the last 15 years I have sewn mostly curtains and household stuff. I know how to sew, but this book shows a different way of looking at sewing and made me ...

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell

Back Bay Books, 2007

Our Hidden Programming
Malcolm Gladwell is a "gatekeeper." In his book, Blink, he opens the gate to a room of self-discovery - a room that allows the reader, perhaps for the first time, to realize that our actions and judgments often are not as "objective" as we might think. Mr. Gladwell, ...

The Pilates Body: The Ultimate At-Home Guide to Strengthening, Lengthening, and Toning Your Body--Without ...

Brooke Siler

Broadway, 2000

The Best Pilates Book Out There
If you want to start a home Pilates program this book is the only one you should consider. It is well-written, with very detailed instructions and photos. I especially liked the bullet list of special tips included with each exercise and the categorization of the ...

The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies

Chet Holmes

Portfolio Trade, 2008

Enhance your sales
This book compiles the steps to create an effective sales force. From marketing training to sales activity tracking, this book teaches how to make the most of your sales people.

Sew U Home Stretch: The Built by Wendy Guide to Sewing Knit Fabrics

Wendy Mullin, Eviana Hartman

Little, Brown and Company, 2008

Wendy Rocks
This second book by Wendy Mc Mullen is even better than the first. Yhe first one put the oomph back into my sewing, the second one gave me a new kickstart back into designing en making up cute stuff:)

Machine Quilting Made Easy

Maurine Noble

That Patchwork Place, 1994

Great place to start!!
I recently took a class taught by Ann Moore (EXCELLENT INSTRUCTOR) who recommended this book for her class. Although this book may not have a lot of pages, it gives a tremendous amount of information. In addition to basic machine quilting techniques, there are tables ...

The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook

Beth Hensperger

Harvard Common Press, 2000

Love it!!!
My experiences with my bread machine (West Bend) were very poor. Could not make a good loaf of bread. Then came this book!!! Outstanding. So far, I have made three recipes from it (just got it recently) and all 3 were excellent. I made the basic Pizza dough on ...

Sew Fast Sew Easy: All You Need to Know When You Start to Sew

Elissa K. Meyrich

St. Martin's Griffin, 2002

great book
The book is great it even comes with patterns. The book is easy to understand and has lots of detail. I would definatly recommend it.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)

Christopher M. Bishop

Springer, 2007

Authorative text
I am a PhD student who wanted to own a good book on pattern recognition. I asked my professor, who had recently attended an international conference on speech recognition, which book to buy. He said that several top academics in the field at the conference had agreed ...

The Accidental Time Machine

Joe Haldeman

Ace Hardcover, 2007

Great time travel book!
This is the first book by Joe Haldeman I read, and I finished it in just one day - I couldn't stop reading.. I liked the pace, the plot and the writing, enjoyed every moment!