books about: technology

books about: technology

books:

Technology

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 ...

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 ...

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 Everything Kids' Science Experiments Book: Boil Ice, Float Water, Measure Gravity-Challenge the World ...

Tom Robinson

Adams Media, 2001

Best fun we had
product provided hours of fun for grandkids. especailly the list for things to make a science kit. Now we don't have to look for the things to have fun with. Good book.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 iPhone Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK (Developer's Library)
Erica Sadun

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008

?This book would be a bargain at ten times its price! If you are writing iPhone software, it will save you weeks of development time. Erica has included dozens of crisp and clear examples illustrating essential iPhone development techniques and many others that show special effects going way beyond Apple?s official documentation.? ?Tim Burks, ...

Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Delicious Cheeses

Ricki Carroll

Storey Publishing, LLC, 2002

perfect for the home cheesemaker ready to try more advanced cheeses
This is an excellent book and is well suited for the beginning cheese maker who has made a few cheeses and is ready to try some more advanced cheeses. The non-recipe sections of the book offer basic cheese making advice, troubleshooting tips, and a course overview of ...

The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It

John Seymour

DK ADULT, 2003

Self-sufficient life
This is an incredible and unique book. The opening chapters that show what you can do with various sized acreages is wonderful. The diagram showing what you can do on a single acre is outstanding. Another thing I love about this book is that it favors the use of ...

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 ...

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.

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns

Clayton M. Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, ...

McGraw-Hill, 2008

If you have children or grandchildren - you need to buy and read this book
Rocket Builders most influential author, Christensen, with his co authors has taken his theory of disruptive innovation and focused on the education sector. The authors do not lay blame but with Christensen's laser sharp analysis, peel back all the root causes of ...