books about: technologies

books about: technologies

books:

Technologies

FE Review Manual: Rapid Preparation for the General Fundamentals of Engineering Exam (F E Review Manual), 2nd ...

Michael R. Lindeburg

Professional Publications, Inc., 2006

An excellent preparation tool
Give yourself about 3 months (or more) and go through the entire book. Follow the author's instructions on how to use the manual. If you go through each chapter and do the questions, you will pass the FE. The format and level of complexity are a spot on match to the ...

Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies

Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff

Harvard Business School Press, 2008

Niet eerlijk
Het is niet helemaal eerlijk dat ik dit boek positief beoordeel: ik ken Josh, ik heb workshops van hem bijgewoond en hoor zijn enthousiasme terug in dit boek. Het is eenvoudig te lezen en buitengewoon boeiend.

The New Way Things Work

David Macaulay

Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1998

Ingenuity. Imagination. Depictions. Diagrams.
Put these four things together--ingenuity, imagination, depictions, diagrams-- and you have a double ID toward understanding how things work. David Macaulay and Neil Ardley put together a magnificent volume for children and children at heart containing a way of ...

The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Thomas L. Friedman

Picador, 2007

Your Guide to Capitalism in the 21st Century
This is a fantastic survey of modern globalization- its benefits, dangers, history, major players, affects for all the world's citizens.... mostly from an economic and social standpoint. Friedman covers the "Globalization 3.0" phenomenon, which, rooted in the Internet, ...

slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

Nancy Duarte

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008

A "must-read" book on creating presentations...
It's almost a cliche to complain about how most presentations are horrible. But fortunately there are a select few books out there that take you beyond the mechanics of creating a presentation. Nancy Duarte has one of those books that need to be read by every ...

iPhone: The Missing Manual: Covers the iPhone 3G (Missing Manual)

David Pogue

Pogue Press, 2008

iPhone Ultimate Reference
David Pogue is so good at what he does he could get hired by Apple or Google immediately and instantly improve their technical documentation department ten-fold. The Missing Manual line of books is so good that it's like candy for the tech reader that wants to learn ...

The Art Of War

Sun Tzu

Filiquarian, 2007

Ancient Timeless Knowledge
While this book is barely 70 pages long, the classic strategies in it are concise and valuble, quite timeless. The book was written 2500 years ago as a basic primer on strategy - and has withstood the test of time. It won't take long to digest the book - but that gives ...

The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

William Strunk Jr., E. B. White

Longman, 1999

a concise review of grammar rules, extremely useful!
William Strunk's book "The Elements of Style" was recommended to me by an American friend, whose linguistic abilities I value very high. I ordered the book immediately and was surprised, when it arrived, by how thin it was. It turned out to be a compendium, which would ...

When Technology Fails (Revised & Expanded): A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the ...

Matthew Stein

Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008

Preparing for "CHAOS" in the United States.
This manual guides one toward survival, when technology fails.....and it will, it's only a matter of time now. It has already begun. Most people cannot hunt, grow food, or recognize anything growing in the wild that would help them survive, if they needed to. The ...

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Clay Shirky

Penguin Press HC, The, 2008

Great Quality Political Analysis
Clay Shirky provides insightful and well-developed analysis of today's new technology and its possible impact on politics and other areas of society, such as journalism. This is interspersed with stories to keep the reader interested. All in all, I am very glad I ...

Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)

Neal Stephenson

Spectra, 2000

Brain BIOS
I liked the linking of how a human brain works and how a computer works. There has to be some hardware/software wired a birth to create the different personalities and to allow consciousness to develop. A funny exciting read.

Microsoft Office 2007: Introductory Concepts and Techniques, Windows XP Edition

Gary B. Shelly; Thomas J. Cashman; Misty E. Vermaat

Course Technology, 2007

Excellent learning tool
I purchased this book for my CIS 120 class (that is intro to micro-computers). This book is an excellent teaching guide to learn everything there is to know about Microsoft Office software. It is very detailed and it gives you examples and you will learn hands on. ...

Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Delicious Cheeses

Ricki Carroll

Storey Publishing, LLC, 2002

Home Cheese Making
As a novice at making cheese this book has given me the confidence I needed to give it a try. My daughter and I had a wonderful Saturday afternoon making Mozerella and Ricotta cheeses. The book is great.

Gallop!: A Scanimation Picture Book (Scanimation Books)

Rufus Butler Seder

Workman Publishing Company, 2007

It had me mesmerized!
Gallop!, by Rufus Butler Seder, is a fun little piece that will have young children moving around as they show off their agility and physically respond to questions like "Can you gallop like a horse?" or "Can you flutter like a butterfly?" There's not much of a ...

The Craft of Research, Third Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, ...

University Of Chicago Press, 2008

Excellent resource
Although there are many books on writing research or term papers, I have not found anything else which brings together material on planning, reasoning and writing the research paper as well as this book. Ignore any reviewers who make this book out to be a simplistic ...