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Title: BYTE-ing Satire A light-hearted poke in technologys eye
Author: Joel Klebanoff
This book is a collection of fifty-two light-hearted essays offer humorous and witty—and sometimes controversial—looks at those areas of technology that can be just a bit, and often considerably more than just a bit, perplexing and perturbing

Title: College Algebra
Author: Robert F. Blitzer
This book presents the traditional content of Precalculus in a manner that answers the age-old question of When will I ever use this? Highlighting truly relevant applications, this book presents the material in an easy to teach from/easy to learn from approach. Chapter topics include equations, inequalities, and mathematical models; functions and graphs; polynomial and rational functions; exponential and logarithmic functions; systems of equations and inequalities; matrices and determinants; conic sections; and sequences, induction, and probability. For engineers of every kind, manufacturing personnel, technologists, technicians, and technical marketing professionals.

Title: Competing by Design: The Power of Organizational Architecture
Author: David Nadler,  Michael Tushman,  Mark B. Nadler
Competing by Design 1) gives you the essential blueprint for designing an effective, competitive organization; 2) clearly shows how organizational capabilities represent the last sustainable source of competitive advantage; 3) Provide tools and plans for flexible organizational architecture, regardless of company size or corporate mission; 4) Demonstrates how to leverage competitive strength through creative internal designs and external strategic alliances; 5) Focuses on the modern organization as a mechanism for processing information.

Title: Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
Author: David Weinberger
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder is a 2007 book by American technologist and commentator David Weinberger. In it, he describes the evolution of the classification of information and information science, as the Internet becomes a widespread part of people’s lives.

Title: Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
Author: Don Tapscott
The bestselling book announcing the arrival of the Net Generation—those kids who are growing up digital—now in paperback. Heraled by Library Journal as one of the Best Business Books of 1997,Growing Up Digital tells how the N-Generation is learning to communicate,work,shop and play in profoundly new ways—and what implications this has for the world and business.

Title: Gunsmithing Shotguns: A Basic Guide to Care and Repair
Author: David R. Henderson
Every hunter has a gun he wishes he could tune up, whether it's the ugly old piece that shoots straight, or the beauty which can't hit a thing. This book is, pure and simple, an attempt at expanding any hunter's knowledge of gunsmithing. It's an overview designed to provide insight, ideas, and techniques that will give the amateur gunsmith the confidence and skill to work on his own guns.

Title: Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Author: Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson, bestselling author of The Mother Tongue, now celebrates its magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle called his befeathered cap Macaroni.

Title: New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning
Author: Andres Duany
Patterned on The American Vitruvius: An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art (1922), one of the most successful and well-known architecture books ever published, The New Civic Art, with 1,200 new illustrations and all new text for over 1,000 entries, exemplifies the very best urban planning and town design. This entirely new book thoroughly details the most important recent trends as well as time-honored precedents. It includes information drawn from over 200 international sources. Information has been selected to make this volume the essential encyclopedic reference and textbook for decades to come.

Title: Organizational Architecture: Designs for Changing Organizations
Author: David A. Nadler
Reveals emerging techniques for answering the challenges senior managers face today: improving organizational quality, inspiring team performance, and creating powerful long-range strategy. Presents a proven model for understanding organizations and demonstrates how it can be used to effect positive change in organizational systems.

Title: Psychology of Learning and Behavior
Author: Barry Schwartz,  Edward A. Wasserman,  Steven J. Robbins
Now on its Fifth Edition, Psychology of Learning and Behavior is one of the most highly regarded texts in its field. Barry Schwartz, Steven J. Robbins, and new co-author Edward A. Wasserman offer students an engaging introduction to the basic principles of Pavlovian conditioning, operant conditioning, and comparative cognition.

Title: Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Author: Andres Duany
Like 'an architectural version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, our main streets and neighborhoods have been replaced by alien substitutes, similar but not the same,' state Duany, Plater-Zyberk and Speck in this bold and damning critique. The authors, who lead a firm that has designed more than 200 new neighborhoods and community revitalization plans, challenge nearly half a century of widely accepted planning and building practices that have produced sprawling subdivisions, shopping centers and office parks connected by new highways. These practices, they contend, have not only destroyed the traditional concept of the neighborhood, but eroded such vital social values as equality, citizenship and personal safety.

Title: Teaching Other People's Children: Literacy and Learning in a Bilingual Classroom
Author: Cynthia Ballenger
The book promotes sensitivity, communication, and problem solving as keys to providing what children need according to their individual development and their parents’ beliefs.

Title: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
Author: David R. Henderson
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (CEE) is a widely-used encyclopedia of economics. It is used by students and teachers from high school to college to graduate school, and is one of the most popular worldwide resources for researching and understanding topics in economics. Articles are written by the most respected economists in their fields, including many Nobel Prize winners. There are also over 80 biographies of famous economists, including accessible summaries of their main contributions to economics with links to their works and secondary resources.

Title: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Author: Jane Jacobs
Jacobs' book is an attack on 'orthodox' modern city planning and city architectural design. Looking into how cities actually work, rather than how they should work according to urban designers and planners, Jacobs effectively describes the real factors affecting cities, and recommends strategies to enhance actual city performance.

Title: The Interpreted World: An Introduction to Phenomenological Psychology
Author: Ernesto Spinelli
This is by far the most monumental, erudite, comprehensive, authoritative case that Existentialism and Phenomenology (a) have a rightful place in the academy; (b) are tough-minded bodies of thought; (c) have rigorous scientific foundations; (d) bequeath a distinctive school of psychotherapy and counselling; and (e) are just as good as the more established systems of psychology.

Title: The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers
Author: Scott Kelby
Scott Kelby, the best-selling Photoshop author in the world today, once again takes this book to a whole new level as he uncovers the latest, most important and most exciting new Adobe Photoshop CS2 techniques for digital photographers.

Title: The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers
Author: Scott Kelby
Are you ready for an Elements book that breaks all the rules–again? Like the best-selling former edition, The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers breaks new ground by doing something for digital photographers that’s rarely done–it cuts through the bull and shows you exactly how to do it. It’s not a bunch of theory; it doesn’t challenge you to come up with your own settings or figure things out on your own. Instead, it does something that virtually no other Elements book has ever done–it tells you flat-out which settings to use, when to use them, and why.

Title: The Processing Pinnacle: An Educator's Guide To Better Processing
Author: Steven Simpson,  Buzz Bocher,  Dan Miller
The Processing Pinnacle offers a theoretical approach to more effective processing, the reflective component of experience. Offering different points of view from the growing world of experiential education, the authors consider the difficulties of processing and suggest techniques to remove these roadblocks.
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