4.17 | 3829 | The Elements of Style | This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. Throughout, the emphasis is on promoting a plain English style. This little book can help you communicate more effectively by showing you how to enliven your sentences. | 105 | Hardcover | 9.323529412 |
4.01 | 1406 | The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood | James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
The story of in… | 527 | Hardcover | 11 |
3.33 | | Responsive Web Design Overview For Beginners | In Responsive Web Design Overview For Beginners, you'll get an overview of what to expect when building a responsive website.
You'll learn about all of the following:
Responsive Web Design Overview
Usability of Smaller Screens
Why Plugins Aren't the Solution
Why a Responsive Web Design Theme May No… | 50 | Kindle Edition | 11.26764706 |
3.97 | 1658 | Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker | If they were a hall of fame or shame for computer hackers, a Kevin Mitnick plaque would be mounted the near the entrance. While other nerds were fumbling with password possibilities, this adept break-artist was penetrating the digital secrets of Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment Corporation, Nokia… | 393 | Hardcover | 12.87352941 |
4.06 | 1325 | How Google Works | Both Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg came to Google as seasoned Silicon Valley business executives, but over the course of a decade they came to see the wisdom in Coach John Wooden's observation that 'it's what you learn after you know it all that counts'. As they helped grow Google from a young… | 305 | Kindle Edition | 13.16470588 |
3.84 | 117 | The Meme Machine | What is a meme? First coined by Richard Dawkins in 'The Selfish Gene', a meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation: stories, fashions, inventions, recipes, songs, ways of plowing a field or throwing a baseball or making a sculpture.
The mem… | 288 | Paperback | 14.18823529 |
4.09 | 5938 | Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action | Why do you do what you do?
Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over?
People … | 256 | Hardcover | 14.23235294 |
4.15 | 1817 | Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions | A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind
All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set … | 368 | Hardcover | 14.36470588 |
3.87 | 2093 | Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy | A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling—a pervasive new force in society that threatens to undermine democracy and widen inequality.
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, … | 259 | Hardcover | 14.50294118 |
4.62 | | ZX Spectrum Games Code Club: Twenty fun games to code and learn | This book is ideal for ZX Spectrum fans and beginner coders of any age that want to learn or practice building simple games. Contains 20 games specifically created for this book, from Arcade classics to more wacky game ideas.
No special equipment needed! Works on...
Windows Mac Original ZX Spectr… | 128 | Paperback | 14.64117647 |