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The hard won battle

3/31/2015

 
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In 1989 Guy Kawasaki published his book, The Macintosh Way documenting the trials and tribulations of his time at Apple trying to make the Mac a viable alternative to the IBM PC. We have a copy in the Booknook in the Reference section. 
It's hard to believe it now with Apple the most profitable company in the history of the world, having sold 243 million iOS devices and 19 million Macintosh computers in 2014, but life at Apple wasn't always so sweet and delicious. Back when the Mac was born, Apple was struggling to stay alive and some were quoted as saying that "it is all over but the crying." Guy was a real believer in the Macintosh, the first computer evangelist and inventor of the term The Art Of Guerilla Management. Guy is still very active and vocal about his passions. Come pick up this book and learn about the early days at Apple. Just $1!

Biographies

2/1/2015

 
We have some interesting folks portrayed in the Biography section of the Booknook. At polar opposites politically are Sarah Palin in Going Rogue: An American Life and Barack Obama's The Audacity Of Hope. Moving to the topic of space we have First Man: The Life Of Neil A. Armstrong and Barbara Eden's autobiography Jeannie Out Of The Bottle. What do those two have in common? Remember the pretense of the TV show I Dream Of Jeannie. Major Nelson played by Larry Hagman, who later starred in Dallas, was an American astronaut who splashed down the Pacific Ocean during a mission, landed on an island, found a bottle and opened it to find Jeannie inside! Astronauts and space were all the rage in 1960's and the antics of the otherwise professional and proper Major Nelson saddled with the troublesome and impetuous Jeannie led to no end of hilarious story lines for the writers.

Thrilling adventure in Anthropology

1/25/2015

 
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If you thought Indiana Jones was a fearless explorer you haven't met Napoleon Chagnon. Dr. Chagnon spent years in the jungles of the Orinoco river basin (remember Enya's #1 hit, Orinoco Flow?) with the Yamomanӧ (Yamomani for those who can’t find UTF8 code U+04E7 on their keyboard) researching their language, customs, behavior and genealogy. 
This fantastic adventure begins with his first encounter with the Yamomanӧ entering a village full of warriors with nocked and drawn arrows pointed right at his head and ends with a world full of angry Cultural Anthropologists demonizing him for embracing science and for accepting Darwin. 
See my Amazon review here. You will find this book on the 4th floor in the Anthropology section, 304.5 Chagnon.


Autographed book: The FFT

1/3/2015

 
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Robert Ramirez' world famous book on the Fast Fourier Transform, probably one of the greatest computational discoveries of the 20th century is available at the Booknook in the Science partition of the Non-Fiction section. The Cooley-Tukey algorithm allowed the modern world to exist and this book describes the algorithm, properties, implications and uses. Our book happens to be a signed copy (see photo).  Learn about Fourier Analysis, the DFT, the FFT and Convolution. There is even a chapter on Applications to help you see how the FFT can be used. 
What a wonderful find, and only $1 at the Booknook today!

Dwight D. Eisenhower on books

12/4/2014

 
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"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship."

Remarks at the Dartmouth College Commencement Exercises, Hanover, New Hampshire, 6/14/53


John Jakes books

11/22/2014

 
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We have a large selection of John Jakes novels in the Fiction section, under J of course. Mr. Jakes wrote a large number of books on historical fiction and one of his trilogies on the Civil War was made into a mini-series for ABC television. His website is at http://www.johnjakes.com/

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