Michael Jecks
Michael Jecks gave up a career in the computer industry when he began writing the internationally successful Templar series. There are now twenty books starring Sir Baldwin Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock, with more to follow. The series has ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Read Me First! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry
 A good book gets even better in 2nd edition: The first edition of this style guide was good, especially if you wanted an alternative to the Microsoft Manual of Style, but this edition is even better. It covers a wider range of issues (for example, adding [... more]
CDN$43.99
Amazon CA |
High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian
From Amazon.co.uk: Clifford Stoll, the Frank Zappa of cyberculture, dances around and about information architecture in High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian. His friendly, just-folks style is accessible and entertaining, even for the [... more]
CDN$18.00
Amazon CA |
The Game Inventor's Guidebook
Very High Level, Very Little Detail: I make video games for a living, and was hoping to glean one or two new nuggets of game design strategy I could add to my repetoire. I failed. What wasn't apparent from reading about the book on Amazon is that it is [... more]
CDN$15.04
Amazon CA |
More Than Moody
Withholding treatment for a depressed teen is irresponsible: This is a terrific book with tons of great information. It's not a silly pop psychology book that say medicate all teens... It's highly unlikely the previous reviewer whose against diagnosing [... more]
CDN$37.99
Amazon CA |
Winners, Losers & Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust ...
From Amazon.com: In Winners, Losers & Microsoft, two top economists punch some big holes in the government's antitrust case against the software behemoth. Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis argue that government lawyers are dead wrong to say [... more]
CDN$29.95
Amazon CA |
CCNA Certification Kit, (Exam 640-802)
From Amazon.co.uk: The combination of Sybex's best-selling CCNA Study Guide and the e-trainer network simulation software mesh wonderfully. In fact, if truth be told they were always intended to be sold as one unit; the book contains a lot of rote [... more]
CDN$239.99
Amazon CA |
Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, ...
Something fascinating about train wrecks: As most people in the computer industry know Xerox pioneered many of the key breakthroughs in the computer industry, but then they were not able to capitalize on the technology they developed. Many, many other [... more]
CDN$18.70
Amazon CA |
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Mind Gems: If you can get past his thick language, Emerson is a gem. He mind is both quick and deep, and therefore is enduring. You start seeing common things in an uncommon way. He is a poet-philosopher par excellence. This selection provides sampling [... more]
CDN$4.00
Amazon CA |
Managing in a Time of Great Change
The best scientific book on managing: Peter F. Drucker 1995 book is the expected counter scientific answer for Managers in a Time of great change. To manage complexity properly in all fields we always have had the need of a good theory so that we can [... more]
CDN$43.71
Amazon CA |
From Barbie® to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games
From Amazon.com: This book explores the complicated issue of gender in computer games-particularly the development of video games for girls. One side is the concern that the average computer game, being attractive primarily to boys, furthers the [... more]
CDN$29.17
Amazon CA |
Blown to Bits
From Amazon.com: Philip Evans and Thomas S. Wurster think that the Internet can blow away practically any business, and in Blown to Bits, they examine how the new economy is "deconstructing" industries such as newspapers, auto retailing, and [... more]
CDN$25.03
Amazon CA |
