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Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative

Addison Wesley, 2001

By recognizing that software development is not a mechanical task, you can create better applications.

Today’s software development projects are often based on the traditional software engineering model, which was created to develop large-scale defense projects. Projects that use this antiquated industrial model tend to take...

Linux For Dummies, 7th Edition

For Dummies, 2006

Use the DVD to sample Linux without installing

Pick a flavor and see what this stable, economical operating system can do!

If you've ever wondered whether the Linux penguin knew something you should know, here's where to find out. This plain-English guide walks you through...

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

Penguin Press, 2005

He has been cited by The New York Times Magazine as "probably the most important economist in the world" and by Time as "the world's best-known economist." He has advised an extraordinary range of world leaders and international institutions on the full range of issues related to creating economic success and reducing...

You Are a Mathematician: A Wise and Witty Introduction to the Joy of Numbers

John Wiley & Sons, 1997

What is the largest number less than 1?

If x and y are any of two different positive numbers, which is larger, x2 + y2 or 2xy?

What do you get if you cross a cube and an octahedron?

Discover the surprising answers as David Wells conclusively proves that: you Are a mathematician

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Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite

Penguin Press, 2006

The antidote to Eats, Shoots and Leaves—an uproarious and very American language book for those who are tired of getting pulled over by the grammar police

What do suicidal pandas, doped-up rock stars, and a naked Pamela Anderson have in common? They’re all a heck of a lot more interesting than...

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Penguin Press, 1986

A brilliant powerful and important book....This is a brutal indictment Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World.

About the Author

Neil Postman (1931–2003) was chairman of the Department of...

The Portable Machiavelli

Penguin Press, 1979

Edited and translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa, "The Portable Machiavelli" not only gives the casual reader a chance to read different personal and professional works of Machiavelli, but also strives to do away with many of the myths that have plagued the man's posthumous fame. For example, the famous 'the ends justifies the...

The Works: Anatomy of a City

Penguin Press, 2005

How much do you really know about the systems that keep a city alive? The Works: Anatomy of a City contains everything you ever wanted to know about what makes New York City run. When you flick on your light switch the light goes on--how? When you put out your garbage, where does it go? When you flush your toilet, what happens to the...

Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity

Penguin Press, 2004

A landmark manifesto about the genuine closing of the American mind.

Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America's most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits...

Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

Penguin Press, 2002

The telegraph, telephone, radio, and especially the computer have put everyone on the globe within earshot— at the price of our privacy. It may feel like we're performing an intimate act when, sequestered in our rooms and cubicles, we casually use our cell phones and computers to transmit our thoughts, confidences,...

Building JavaScript Games: for Phones, Tablets, and Desktop

Apress, 2014

Building JavaScript Games teaches game programming through a series of engaging, arcade-style games that quickly expand your JavaScript and HTML5 skills. JavaScript is in the top ten most-used programming languages world wide, and is the basis for applications that can run in any modern browser, on any device from smart phone to...

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