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.The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

April 17, 2007
This is the book I drag around everywhere, you can only read a few pages at a time because you need to think while digesting. the author is very knowledgable - sometimes too knowledgable, but that's a good thing, because he has a lot to say, a different point of view, a chip on his shoulder, intelligence to burn, a worldview bought to american shores, and he is conflicted about the class system - shrugging his shoulders at the suits, but flinging out big names here and there. No matter, it is worth the price of the book, because he stimulates thought. A sure sign of a good teacher, as well as tossing out more than a few investment strategies and his well-concieved notions about our financial system.
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.slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations
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by: Nancy Duarte

August 12, 2008
A very interesting book for people who uses to make presentations and want to do it different.
Very good graphics, many examples, Ideas, etc

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.Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
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by: Steve McConnell

July 07, 2004
I bought this because it was highly recommended as a must have for the software engineer. I browsed through it and I'm not sorry I bought it. It has some good stuff.
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.Web Analytics: An Hour a Day
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by: Avinash Kaushik

June 05, 2007
This book is fantastic. Not only does it cover everything, but it does it in a simple way, an hour a day!

I reckon once you have finished this book you will be a head of the majority.

Must get for analytics.
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.Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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by: Douglas R. Hofstadter

February 04, 1999
Godel, Escher and Bach, written by Douglas Hofstadter, while the title would suggest it is discussion of a mathematician, an artist, and a composer, is a complex examination of how human beings develop perception and meaning. More specifically, the book explores, through a series of dialogues and narrations, how symbols, thought and language are all intertwined and how reality is essentially a composition of overlapping meanings and perceptions. The book challenges the reader to observe the system of symbolic meanings around him or her objectively.
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.The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers
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by: Martin Evening

August 10, 2008
This book looks great, but guess what ?

Every stinking menu of screen shot is from a MAC !

Not one shot from a PC

And YES !

The MAC and PC versions DO NOT HAVE THE SAME SCREENS !!!

How stupid can people at Adobe be ?

If you are going to write a book like this, write it for the MAJORITY OF COMPUTERS OUT THERE !!!

Not the MINORITY !!

Very frustrating to follow understand due to this issue.

Makes the book useless for PC owners !.


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.Head First Design Patterns (Head First)
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by: Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra

October 25, 2004
This was my first book from Head First, and i love it! The book uses an easy approach (besides the schema in each chapter) to make you understand the different patterns. I think the book is good for junior and mid senior people.
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.A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Sixth Edition (A+ Certification All in One Exam)
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by: Michael Meyers

December 21, 2006
This is the best book to use to study for the A+ exams. It even came with a CD containing practice tests. All this for 35 dollars is pretty darn good.
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.Canon EOS 40D Guide to Digital Photography
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by: David D. Busch

November 16, 2007
I carry it with me everywhere. Great resource, very well written and I learn something new everyday. Congratulations to the author, he knows what the new owner of this fantastic camera needs to learn.

Easy to read straight forward information for a newcomer.
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.Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin Series)
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by: Robert C. Martin

August 11, 2008
When you do code maintenance, you can really "love" or "hate" a person that you do not even know just by the code he or she has written. Messy code almost always goes hand in hand with lower productivity, lower motivation, and a higher number of bugs. In the first chapter, Robert C. Martin presents in a very instructive way, the opinion from very well-known personalities about what "clean code" is, and also suggests we apply the Boy Scout Rule (Leave the campground cleaner that you found it) to our code. The following chapters present practical advice about how to do this cleaning (or even better, how to avoid the mess in the first place).

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