http://www.netvouz.com/emmineb/tag/book?feed=rss emmineb's bookmarks tagged "book" on Netvouz http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0810930951/ref=dp_proddesc_0/102-4085570-1457716?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books Worldchanging is poised to be the Whole Earth Catalog for this millennium. Written by leading new thinkers who believe that the means for building a better future lie all around us, Worldchanging is packed with the information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers the tools they need to make a difference. Brought together by Alex Steffen, co-founder of the popular and award-winning web site Worldchanging.com, this team of top-notch writers includes Cameron Sinclair, founder of Architecture for Humanity, Geekcorps founder Ethan Zuckerman, sustainable food expert Anna Lappé, and many others. Renowned designer Stefan Sagmeister brings his extraordinary talents to emmineb Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:20:06 GMT http://covers.fwis.com/ emmineb Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:31:31 GMT http://www.metafilter.com/88638/Confessions-of-a-Book-Pirate Confessions of a Book Pirate NY Times Arts Beat: Report Finds 9 Million Illegal Downloads of E-Books Attributor Blog: Online Book Piracy Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $3 Billion posted by brundlefly (105 comments total) 13 users marked this as a favorite emmineb Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:58:56 GMT http://www.samurai.com/5rings/ emmineb Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:04:10 GMT http://www.amazon.co.uk/Psychology-Military-Incompetence-Norman-Dixon/dp/0712658890 "Everyone who manages anyone should be required to read this book. By focussing on the military Dixon has written a book crammed with examples that show the drastic consequences of incompetence. In management situations it's seldom a matter of life and death (despite the way some bosses act) but the consequences are still there: demotivated, under-utilised, confused and stressed staff. So if you're the boss and this sounds familiar you should read this book and learn it's lessons." emmineb Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:14:25 GMT http://www.lem.pl/cyberiadinfo/english/dziela/cyberiada/cyberiadapl.htm#2 How The World Was Saved (a fragment of The Cyberiad) One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could create anything starting with n. When it was ready, he tried it out, ordering it to make needles, then nankeens and negligees, which it did, then nail the lot to narghiles filled with nepenthe and numerous other narcotics. The machine carried out his instructions to the letter. Still not completely sure of its ability, he had it produce, one after the other, nimbuses, noodles, nuclei, neutrons, naphtha, noses, nymphs, naiads, and natrium. 'This last it could not do, and Trurl, considerably irritated, demanded an explanation. "Never heard of it," said the machine.Trurl's Machine "What? But it's only sodium. You know, the meta emmineb Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:01:51 GMT http://agonist.org/sean_paul_kelley/20060806/big_boxes#comment Nobody knows exactly how many containers there are in the world, but estimates run as high as three hundred million. What we do know is that not so long ago, there were none. Shipping containers are a recent American invention. On the face of it not a world-shaking event, yet it could be called the beginning of a revolution in transportation. emmineb Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:32:14 GMT http://www.digitallantern.net/mcluhan/mcluhanplayboy.htm In 1961, the name of Marshall McLuhan was unknown to everyone but his English students at the University of Toronto--and a coterie of academic admirers who followed his abstruse articles in small-circulation quarterlies. But then came two remarkable books-- "The Gutenberg Galaxy" (1962) and "Understanding Media" (1964)--and the graying professor from Canada's western hinterlands soon found himself characterized by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the hottest academic property around." He has since won a world-wide following for his brilliant--and frequently baffling--theories about the impact of the media on man; and his name has entered the French language as mucluhanisme, a synonym for the world of pop culture. emmineb Thu, 24 May 2007 11:03:07 GMT http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/05/touchgraph_amazon_browser.html an interactive network visualization that aims to reveal the intricate network structure within purchase pattern recommendations. users can explore related books or albums, see how similar items form clusters around common subjects, & discover how the clusters themselves are connected within the information space. it seems the visual information design & interactive features have been dramatically enhanced since their first google browser version about 2 years ago. emmineb Fri, 25 May 2007 08:10:44 GMT http://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-War-Terrorism-Globalization/dp/0471780790/sr=11-1/qid=1162992274/ref=sr_11_1/102-4085570-1457716 As Brave New War explains, system disruption lies at the heart of the agenda. Instead of symbolic, or deadly attacks, we should be on the lookout for economically devastating attacks. Our enemy will be looking for gaps in the system where a small, cheap action--say, on an oil pipeline--will generate a tremendous return. It may not even make the evening news, except as a report on spiraling gas prices. Because of the open source nature of the enemy, they don't all need to be smart. In fact, none of them need to be smart. They'll just keep trying random acts until one really works, and then they'll all copy it. That doesn't take genius, just flexibility. Is this all just theoretical? No, it's exactly what we're seeing in Iraq, as their IEDs improve, their tar emmineb Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:27:01 GMT