books about: engineering     books:     Engineering      Ender's Game Orson Scott Card Starscape, 2002 great read do you like books? do you like characters with superhero-like abilities? do you like lasers that go pew-pew? Then you'll enjoy this novel.             The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books, 2002 "THINK OF THEM AS EPIDEMICS" This book asserts that the best way to understand popularity and social behavior, such as the rise in popularity of a book, teen behaviors, or word of mouth phenomena, is to model them as epidemics. The author suggests that ideas, behaviors, and the popularity of ...             Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build ... Daniel C. Esty, Andrew S. Winston Yale University Press, 2006 Must read Excellent breakdown of the drivers for companies to go green. Also excellent analyses of strategies used by the corporate world to achieve their goals with green programs. Many examples of what worked and what didn't work. Great reading!             The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1) James Patterson Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007 Awesome book! This is a really good book. There is a lot of action and suspense, and the chapters are short, so if you hate endlessly long chapters (Like me) then that's another reasong to read this. There were really only two things that annoyed me in this book: 1. Things always ...             Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming Fred Krupp, Miriam Horn W. W. Norton, 2008 Great Book Really opens your eyes as to what is out there and what to push for. We need to act now to save our planet for future generations. This book details the possibilities.             Head First Design Patterns (Head First) Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, ... O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004 Head First is good for your brain. I love this book. It is my first Head First book and I intend to buy more. It is really a fun way to learn. Though the book deals with some advanced topics, the way the material is presented makes it easier to get into your brain. My suggestion is to pick up one ...             Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens: Care / Feeding / Facilities Gail Damerow Storey Publishing, LLC, 1995 Good information This was a step up from my kids' basic chicken care book. It was very thorough and helped us "beginners" get our questions answered.             Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction Steve McConnell Microsoft Press, 2004 Every Programmer Should Own This Book When I bought this book, I couldn't believe all the 5 star ratings in the reviews. But, now that I've finished it, I have to agree with them. Simply put, this is probably the best computer-related book I've read. In the book's 850 pages, I found a grand total of ...             Influencer: The Power to Change Anything Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, ... McGraw-Hill, 2007 Read this book if you want to impact the world I was invited to a webcast featuring the new book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxwell, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler, Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, McGraw Hill:New York (c) 2008. I left the room convinced I had to buy it and also give it to ...             The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, Book 4) James Patterson Little, Brown and Company, 2008 My opinion... I know a lot of people didn't like this book, but I really don't know why. It was written basically the same, the humor was fantastic (as it usually is), and it had a good message in it: help save the planet. Max's speech in the end was a really good one and it changed ...             Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, ... Addison-Wesley Professional, 1994 very attractive cover unlike the last pattern book i reviewed (see my other reviews), this one has an attractive cover. i like blue.             Saving the World (Maximum Ride, Book 3) James Patterson Vision, 2008 The best Maximum Ride book yet! This is a really good book. It's the best Maximum Ride book (But not by far, the first one was really good too)but also the saddest. It was really sad The-person-who's-name-I-will-not-name-or-else-I-will-give-away-a-part-of-the-book died. *Before I start the pros and ...             The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't ... Mark Bauerlein Tarcher, 2008 Amen! It's About Time Someone Spoke the Truth About Today's Kids It's about time someone had the guts to step forward with the stats that show today's young people are not even close to being the "greatest generation." They are a bunch of under-achieving, spoiled, whining know-it-alls that in truth know very little. The book is ...             The New Age of Innovation: Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks C.K. Prahalad, M.S. Krishnan McGraw-Hill, 2008 How to prosper in the "N = 1 and R = G" world How to prosper in the "N = 1 and R = G" world I have read and then reviewed all of C.K. Prahalad's previous books and thus was especially interested in reading this book, co-authored with M.S. Krishnan. As they explain in the Introduction, "We view innovation as ...             The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge David McCullough Simon & Schuster, 1983 Finally a McCullough Book I love Why is the most effective of all of McCullough's books? He leaves out all those boring and hard to follow quotes and TELLS the story that he is so effective at doing. Yes, it still has more facts than most people would desire, but this being my third book about The ...          products you might be interested in search for books addison-wesley, competitive, construction, environmental, object-oriented, professional randomly chosen book: Auroras De Sangre (Coleccion Biografias y documentos)