Books

March 22nd, 2009 by alephnaught

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Title: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us Author: Seth Godin Hardcover: 160 pages Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover; 1 edition (October 16, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 1591842336 ISBN-13: 978-1591842330 I’ve read a few of Seth Godin’s books before and always learned something from them.  So, I decided to bring this along on my vacation to Italy. […]

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March 7th, 2009 by alephnaught

Uzumaki, Volume 2 (2nd Edition)

Title: Uzumaki, Volume 2 (2nd Edition) Author: Junji Ito (Illustrator), Annette Roman (Editor) Paperback: 208 pages Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; 2 edition (December 18, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 1421513900 ISBN-13: 978-1421513904 I recently finished the first volume of the Uzumaki series and just had to continue the story of the spirals. The main characters, Kirie, […]

March 5th, 2009 by alephnaught

MAKE YOUR POINT!: SPEAK CLEARLY AND CONCISELY ANYPLACE, ANYTIME

Title: MAKE YOUR POINT!: SPEAK CLEARLY AND CONCISELY ANYPLACE, ANYTIME Author: Bob Elliott (Author), Kevin Carroll (Author) Paperback: 132 pages Publisher: AuthorHouse (February 8, 2005) Language: English ISBN-10: 1420804391 ISBN-13: 978-1420804393 Our Toastmasters club, Navigators Toastmasters, hands this book each week to the second place speaking finisher.  I don’t like competition and don’t like awards […]

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March 2nd, 2009 by alephnaught

Witchblade Volume 1: Witch Hunt (v. 1)

Title: Witchblade Volume 1: Witch Hunt (v. 1) Author: Ron Marz (Author), Mike Choi (Author) Paperback: 160 pages Publisher: Top Cow Productions/Image Comics (February 13, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 1582409064 ISBN-13: 978-1582409061 I’ve been on a graphic novel kick lately, so when I saw this in a store (probably a Borders or a Barnes and […]

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March 1st, 2009 by alephnaught

Uzumaki, Volume 1

Title: Uzumaki, Volume 1 Author: Junji Ito (Illustrator), Annette Roman (Editor) Paperback: 208 pages Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; 2 edition (October 16, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 1421513897 ISBN-13: 978-1421513898 I saw this book at my favorite Japanese bookstore in Los Angeles (and in New York City too), Kinokuniya, and thought I’d give it a shot. […]

February 21st, 2009 by alephnaught

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

Title: slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations Author: Nancy Duarte Paperback: 294 pages Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (August 12, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0596522347 ISBN-13: 978-0596522346 If you want to take your presentations to the next level, I suggest these things: Find a local Toastmasters club, Read this book and […]

February 21st, 2009 by alephnaught

Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Rich Internet Application Developers

Title: Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Rich Internet Application Developers Author: David Tucker, Marco Casario, Koen De Weggheleire, Rich Tretola Paperback: 446 pages Publisher: Adobe Dev Library; 1 edition (November 24, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0596522509 ISBN-13: 978-0596522506 I found this book very useful for someone just starting out with Adobe Air […]

February 3rd, 2009 by alephnaught

Review of JavaScript Performance Rocks!

Title: JavaScript Performance Rocks! Author: Thomas Fuchs and Amy Hoy This ebook does rock!  I’ve been doing various kinds of web development for years and I learned some useful tricks. The book is 107 pages organized into 4 sections: Intro Loadtime Runtime iPhone Each section takes a no-holds-barred approach to the content. My favorite section […]

January 25th, 2009 by alephnaught

The Filth

Title: The Filth Author: Grant Morrison Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Vertigo (June 1, 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 1401200133 ISBN-13: 978-1401200138 I really didn’t like this graphic novel. Its yet another conspiracy story wrapped around a guy that cleans up messes in the universe while his alter-ego has a dying cat (and really likes porn).  As […]

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January 13th, 2009 by alephnaught

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Title: Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife Author: Mary Roach Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton (October 2, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0393329127 ISBN-13: 978-0393329124 Mary Roach likes to write about things she initially knows nothing about; she must really dig doing research (and meeting some off-kilter folks).  Her last book, Stiff, discusses what happens […]

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