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The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Praise for THE MAVERICK AND HIS MACHINE

"Like all great biographers, Kevin Maney gives us an engaging story and so much more. His fascinating and definitive book about IBM’s founder is replete with amazing revelations and character lessons that resonate today. Among the gems: how a demanding curmudgeon managed to shape...

Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

O'Reilly, 2013

Create and publish your own interactive data visualization projects on the Web—even if you have little or no experience with data visualization or web development. It’s easy and fun with this practical, hands-on introduction. Author Scott Murray teaches you the fundamental concepts and methods of D3, a JavaScript library...

Mac OS X v. 10.3 Panther: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

You already know Mac OS X Panther basics. Now you’d like to go beyond, with shortcuts, tricks, and tips that let you work smarter and faster. And because you learn more easily when someone shows you how, this is the book for you. Inside, you’ll find clear, illustrated instructions for 100 tasks that reveal cool secrets, teach...

Business Journalism: How to Report on Business and Economics

Apress, 2013

Business Journalism: How to Report on Business and Economics is a basic guide for journalists working in countries moving to open-market economies, students in journalism courses, journalists changing direction from general news reporting to business and economic reporting, and bloggers. It also explains the differences in technique...

The Edges of Fiction

Polity, 2019

What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course of events that occur one after the other, aiming to show how...

One Last Spin: the power and peril of the pokies

Scribe Publications, 2019

A poignant and compassionate work of literary journalism that tackles Australia’s most controversial pastime.

Almost 200,000 poker machines sing and flash in pubs, clubs, and casinos in every corner of the country. They’re highly complex devices, their components designed by mathematicians, musicians,...

Adobe Photoshop Forensics

Course Technology PTR, 2007

Thanks to TV's crime scene investigation shows, forensic technology has entered popular culture. Combining puzzle solving and a dramatic storyline, these shows fascinate audiences as high-tech procedures uncover the truths hidden in seemingly insignificant clues. What many people may not realize is that forensic teams also use items they probably...

Business Writing for Results : How to Create a Sense of Urgency and Increase Response to All of Your Business Communications

McGraw-Hill, 2003

Malcolm Forbes once said, “A good business letter can get you a job interview, get you off the hook, or get you money. It’s totally asinine to blow your chances of getting whatever you want with a business letter that turns people off instead of turning them on.”

Here’s the bottom line: If you can’t produce...

Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly Radar

O'Reilly, 2011

This collection represents the full spectrum of data-related content we’ve published on O’Reilly Radar over the last year. Mike Loukides kicked things off in June 2010 with “What is data science?” and from there...

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

“Part John le Carré and more parts Michael Crichton . . . spellbinding.” –The New Yorker

From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapons market-the most secretive, invisible, government-backed market on earth-and a...

Communicating Biological Sciences

Ashgate, 2009

Recent scandals in the biosciences have highlighted the perils of communicating science. Many observers have therefore begun to ask questions about the pressures on scientists and the media to hype-up claims of scientific breakthroughs. Journalists, science writers and scientists themselves have to report complex and rapidly-developing...

Resumes for Communications Careers

McGraw-Hill, 2003

Communications is a wide-ranging field covering everything from public relations to broadcast journalism to technical writing. Despite the diversity of options, competition for these highly coveted positions is fierce. Give yourself an edge by consulting Resumes for Communications Careers, packed with expert advice on crafting a...

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