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.The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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by: Edward R. Tufte

2001-01
I think I made Tufte very rich. If I didn't it was not my fault. I was a Displays Manager with IBM and used his book to illustrate how colour & pixels could enhance information. I developed a presentation that used his work to exploit data and its visualisation. As a result I sold one hell of a lot of screens (IBM 3279 colour screens - the first ever colour screens - and at £3,000 a crack I sold 6,000 in the first year alone). I also sold a lot of Tufte's books. The quite brilliant example of Minard's graph of Napoleon's campaign in Russia (contained within the book) would keep an audience occupied for 2 hours - and not a yawn - so if ever the Good Professor decides to make a Will, he should remember me and I hope ... Read More:
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.Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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by: Neil Shubin

January 31, 2008
"Your Inner Fish" truly merits ample praise for being one of the best-written books on science I've read in years. It also ranks easily as an early, leading candidate as one of the finest books published this year. In clear, concise, and quite vivid, prose, this marvelous terse tome recounts in spectacular fashion, the incredible saga of the evolutionary history of our human body. Vertebrate paleobiologist and anatomy professor Neil Shubin is our enthusiastic, expert guide through this amazing journey into our body's primordial past, weaving with utmost brevity, a most compelling, and intricate, tale from fossils, genes and developmental biology. A fascinating trek through these aspects of evolutionary biology that represents too an intriguing personal ... Read More:
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.The Complete Best Man: How to Turn a Terrifying Prospect into a Piece of Cake
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by: John Bowden

March 14, 2006
This book is absolutely brilliant. The author tells you all you need to know about a best man's duties (and his all-important speech!) in a straightforward and really humorous way. I found it invaluable and cannot recommend it too highly. Thanks, John, as you promised in the blurb of your book, you turned a terrifying prospect into a piece of (wedding) cake!


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.A Practical Guide to Child Observation and Assessment
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by: Christine Hobart, Jill Frankel

May 04, 2004
this book is brilliant, it really helped me when i was doing my childcare course. it has the stages of each area of development for each age, and is really helpful.
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.Understanding Children's Development (4th Edition) (Basic Psychology S.) (Basic Psychology)
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by: Peter Smith, Helen Cowie, Mark Blades

February 17, 2003
Its a very good book covering all areas very well.
A good accompanyment to a BA Early Years Education.
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.The Practice of English Language Teaching (4th Edition) (With DVD) (Longman Handbooks for Language Teachers)
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by: Jeremy Harmer, Harmer Jeremy

May 31, 2007
Its a very good book covering all areas very well.
A good accompanyment to a BA Early Years Education.
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.The Back Passage
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by: James Lear

April 17, 2008

Yes, it's entertaining and yes it's arousing and thus fulfils its own brief. But ... oh dear Mr Lear, on page TWO you identify the river that flows through Cambridge as the Isis. It isn't. The Isis flows through Oxford. The "old" name of Cambridge's river Cam is the Granta (like the literary magazine). In a confection such as "Back Passage", it's these details (easily checked on Wikipedia, for God's sake), that make the difference between a genre-subverting delight and a ho-hum "well ... it's sort of OK and ... sort of fun ..."

Louis LaSalle's cover photograph is, as usual with Mr LaSalle, drop-dead sexy.







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.The Difficult Second Book
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by: Chris Moyles

May 01, 2008
Idiotic, uninformed, arrogant, obnoxious - it's a wonder that a man who's written a book as bad as this could have reached as far as Chris Moyles has done. But that's how it goes. Just because he can talk the talk doesn't mean to say he can write....!
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.Prison Diary 3
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by: Jeffrey Archer

April 01, 2005
Having read the other 2 diaries I was looking forward to the final installment. Archer did not disappoint and what came across to me was the gross injustices in the system. Having never experienced the prison system from the inside it was a fascinating - though depressing, and at times very touching - read.

This Trilogy should be compulsory reading for all Home Secretaries and those involved in policy making in the criminal justice system. It is no wonder that such a high proportion of offenders reoffend, for a variety of reasons. Archer doesn't have all the answers to the ills in the prison system (although he does come up with some suggestions) but without knowing what actually happens 'on the inside' what hope is there for any reform?
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.Batman and Philosophy: The Dark Knight of the Soul (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series)
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from: John Wiley & Sons

June 13, 2008
Having read the other 2 diaries I was looking forward to the final installment. Archer did not disappoint and what came across to me was the gross injustices in the system. Having never experienced the prison system from the inside it was a fascinating - though depressing, and at times very touching - read.

This Trilogy should be compulsory reading for all Home Secretaries and those involved in policy making in the criminal justice system. It is no wonder that such a high proportion of offenders reoffend, for a variety of reasons. Archer doesn't have all the answers to the ills in the prison system (although he does come up with some suggestions) but without knowing what actually happens 'on the inside' what hope is there for any reform?
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