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CrackBerry: True Tales of BlackBerry Use and Abuse (Books for Professionals by Professionals)

Apress, 2010

A delayed train, a dip in the conversation, an early morning hour with no sleep—during these moments, do you feel an overwhelming urge to grab your BlackBerry? Do you know someone else who does? If the answer is yes, then look no further than this one-of-a-kind book…

CrackBerry: True Tales of Blackberry Use and...

Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management (Theory in Practice)

O'Reilly, 2008

In the updated edition of this critically acclaimed and bestselling book, Microsoft project veteran Scott Berkun offers a collection of essays on field-tested philosophies and strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects. Each essay distills complex concepts and challenges into practical nuggets of useful advice, and the new...

When Pancakes Go Bad: Optical Delusions with Adobe Photoshop

Course Technology PTR, 2004

If you've ever found yourself looking at funny images and thinking "Hey, how?d they do that?", this is the book that will give you the answer! Learn how to have fun with photos?swapping pictures of historical inventions with modern-day appliances or combining images of animals to produce unrealistic characters. "When Pancakes Go...

I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

Random House, 2019

From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.

“Emily Nussbaum is the perfect critic—smart, engaging, funny, generous, and insightful.”—David...

The Physics of Superheroes

Gotham, 2005

If superheroes stepped off the comic book page or silver screen and into reality, could they actually work their wonders in a world constrained by the laws of physics? How strong would Superman have to be to “leap tall buildings in a single bound”? Could Storm of the X-Men possibly control the weather? And how many cheeseburgers would...

#tweetsmart: 25 Twitter Projects to Help You Build Your Community

O'Reilly, 2012

"OK. I’ve got my Twitter account…now what can I do with it?" Sound familiar? #tweetsmart provides the answer with 25 creative projects to help your business, cause, or organization grow. But this isn’t just another social media marketing book—it’s the anti-marketing how-to...

Functional and Dysfunctional Sexual Behavior: A Synthesis of Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology

Academic Press, 2007

For a long time I was fascinated by trying to understand the behavioral, endocrine and neural mechanisms controlling rat sexual behavior, independently of whether such an understanding was of any use or not. My favorite afternoon distraction was to walk over to the lab and see how the experiments were going, and if possible I...

A Headmaster's Story: My Life in Education

Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2019

Bill Schroder is the stuff teaching legends are made of. He was strict, yet kind; firm and consistent, yet creative and playful when needed. He knew the magical mix of discipline and care needed to ensure the loyalty of his students.

In this warm-hearted, inspiring and often funny memoir, Schroder looks back on four...

iPhone: The Missing Manual

O'Reilly, 2013

Answers found here!

In iOS 7, Apple gave the iPhone the most radical makeover in its history. The new software is powerful, sleek, and a perfect companion to the iPhone 5s and 5c—but it’s wildly different. Fortunately, David Pogue is back with an expanded edition of his witty, full-color guide: the...

Oh. My. Gods.

Dutton Juvenile, 2008

The story is part "Harry Potter," part Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief and part shojo, and it will keep teens, particularly girls, reading. -- School Library Journal

The mythological concept elevates the usual high-school dramas...to new heights. Funny and light, this tale is a romance of Olympian proportions. --...

In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters

Apress, 2003

In 1982 Tom Peters and Robert Waterman kicked off the modern business book era with In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies. The book was a runway best-seller, and soon authors from all corners of business life were exhorting companies and the people who worked in those companies to get out there and...

Excel for Starters: Exactly What You Need to Get Started (Missing Manual)

Pogue Press, 2005

The dominant spreadsheet program and one of the most widely used software applications in the world, Microsoft Excel is unbelievably powerful--and can be downright intimidating. If you're new to Excel or among the many existing Excel users who are dazed and confused by all that the program can do (and by how little it has...

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