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  Life of Pi

  by Yann Martel

  Life of Pi is a fantasy novel about a boy stranded in a lifeboat with a 450-pound Bengal Tiger after a shipwreck. Pi Patel's father runs a zoo in Pondicherry - a former French colony in India - but decides to migrate to Canada along with his family and assorted zoo animals due to political tensions. However, their voyage is abruptly cut short when Tsimtsum - their Japanese cargo ship - sinks in the Pacific during... (more)
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  Fish!

  A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results

  by Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen

  Imagine a workplace where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude to the job every day. Imagine an environment in which people are truly connected to their work, to their colleagues, and to their customers. In this engrossing parable, a fictional manager is charged with the responsibility of turning a chronically unenthusiastic and unhelpful department into an effective team. Across the... (more)
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  We the Media

  Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People

  by Dan Gillmor

  For the first time, bloggers have been awarded press credentials to cover the national political conventions. That‚s a harbinger of bigger changes in the media landscape, according to nationally known columnist Dan Gillmor. His new book, We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, tells the story of the grassroots journalists–including bloggers–who are dismantling Big Media‚s monopoly on the... (more)
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  The Cult of the Amateur

  How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture

  by Andrew Keen

  Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement. Our most valued cultural institutions, Keen... (more)
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  Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

  by American Psychological Association

  Style manual for writers, editors, students, educators, and professionals across all fields. Provides clear guidance on grammar, the mechanics of writing, and APA style. Includes examples, new guidelines and advice, and more. Previous edition: c1994. Softcover, wire-spiral edition is also available. Hardcover edition due later.
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  One Up on Wall Street

  How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market

  by Peter Lynch, John Rothchild

  Peter Lynch's acclaimed New York Times bestseller, with more than one million copies sold, is now a handy, useful Running Press Miniature Edition™! Readers will learn what stocks to avoid, how to decipher Wall Street jargon, how to design a perfect portfolio, and countless other ways to succeed in business and finance. Packed with insightfrul excerpts from essays in the original One Up on Wall Street , as well... (more)
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  Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis

  by Joan Bolker

  Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and co-founder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive... (more)
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  The Unauthorized Halo 2 Battle Guide: Advanced Combat Techniques (Premier Press Game Development (Paperback))

  by Stephen Cawood

  Go beyond the single player campaign. Apply real-world military maneuvers to Halo 2 and sharpen your battle performance with "The Unauthorized Halo 2 Battle Guide: Advanced Combat Techniques"! Explore strategies and tactics for single or multiplayer play, get practical advice from expert players, master advanced combat and team strategy, and learn how to apply real-world military tactics to your game and... (more)
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  Wikinomics: Book 1

  Wikinomics

  How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

  by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams

  In just the last few years, traditional collaboration—in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center—has been superseded by collaborations on an astronomical scale. Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive... (more)
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  Windows XP Answers from the Experts

  by Jim Boyce

  Jim Boyce and Deb Shinder have answered enough XP questions through their web sites and newsletters to fill a book. So, that’s what they did. Windows XP Answers from the Xperts is loaded with easy-to-adopt advice on upgrading, maintaining, and troubleshooting Windows XP. Coverage includes network setup, security, and resource sharing, remote access, customization, XP Service Pack 2, and plenty of information on... (more)
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  Working Knowledge

  by Thomas H. Davenport

  The definitive overview of knowledge management, now available in paperback This influential book establishes the enduring vocabulary and concepts in the burgeoning field of knowledge management. It serves as the hands-on resource of choice for companies that recognize knowledge as the only sustainable source of competitive advantage going forward. Drawing from their work with more than 30 knowledge-rich... (more)
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  Everything Is Miscellaneous

  The Power of the New Digital Disorder

  by David Weinberger

  “Perfectly placed to tell us what’s really new about <the> second-generation Web.”— Los Angeles Times Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world—in which everything has a place—are upended. In the digital world, everything has its places, with transformative effects: • Information is now a... (more)
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  Power Shift

  by Alvin Toffler

  This book has hardback covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In good all round condition.
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  A Grammar of the Multitude

  by Paolo Virno

  Globalization is forcing us to rethink some of the categories--such as "the people"--that traditionally have been associated with the now eroding state. Italian political thinker Paolo Virno argues that the category of "multitude," elaborated by Spinoza and for the most part left fallow since the seventeenth century, is a far better tool to analyze contemporary issues than the Hobbesian concept of "people,"... (more)
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  Unstuck: A Tool for Yourself, Your Team, and Your World

  by Keith Yamashita

  Everyone gets stuck sooner or later. The big question is how do you get unstuck? People and organizations get stuck because the most ambitious and rewarding work brings with it the most challenges. Unstuck is a smart, fearless, totally practical guide to turn to for inspiration and immediate solutions. It’s meant to be acted on, not just read. And it’s based on the proven practices the authors have... (more)
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  Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace

  by Pierre Le?vy

  Shows how unfettered exchange of ideas in cyberspace has the potential to liberate us from the social and political hierarchies that have stood in the way of mankind's advance. A unique contribution to the growing interest & debate on network communication and the impact on human cognition. DLC: Information technology - Social aspects.
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  How We Became Posthuman

  Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

  by N. Katherine Hayles

  In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek -style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles... (more)
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  Charles Schwab's Guide to Financial Independence: Simple Solutions for Busy People

  by Charles Schwab

  When it comes to investing, most of us know where we'd like to be but not how to get there. We'd like nothing better than to sit down with an experienced professional who can guide us through the bewildering array of choices. Reading this easy-to-understand book is like having the founder and CEO of a $350 billion brokerage firm sit at your kitchen table and distill his 40-plus years of accumulated wisdom in a... (more)
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  Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice

  The Internet played a pivotal role in some of the most memorable instances of political activism in recent years. 1999's "Battle of Seattle" saw more than 70,000 protestors come together by means of online organizing to take on the World Trade Organization. Similar ad hoc groups were assembled largely with the aid of decentralized online information sites at the April 2000 World Bank protests in Washington, D.C.;... (more)
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  The Class of the New

  by Richard Barbrook

  http://www.theclassofthenew.net Netizens, elancers, cognitarians, swarm-capitalists, hackers, produsumers, knowledge workers, pro-ams...these are just a few of the monikers that have been applied to the new social class emerging from the networked workplace. In this short book, Richard Barbrook presents a collection of quotations from authors who in different ways attempt to identify an innovative element within... (more)