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Continuous Learning
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The Speed Reading BookAuthor: Tony Buzan Description: Tony's innovative approach to this subject makes speed reading easy to understand, enabling you to apply it immediately to all aspects of your life. It's fun as well! An ideal tool for students, teachers, executives indeed, anyone eager to improve the speed, comprehension and quality of their reading. Speed Reading makes it easy to: *Think faster and more creatively *Make better notes *Pass exams with relative ease *Study more successfully *Save days, weeks even months of your time ISBN-10: 056348702X ISBN-13: 978-0563487029 Google Books:' http://books.google.com/books?id=HpvjGZ_Ff60C&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+speed+reading+book&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=true Buy this book: http://www.amazon.com/Speed-Reading-Book-Tony-Buzan/dp/056348702X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272193950&sr=1-1 License: ??? |
Free and Open Source
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Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free SoftwareAuthor: Sam Williams Description: is a free book licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License about the life of Richard Stallman. Williams conducted several interviews with Stallman during the writing of the book, as well as with classmates and colleagues of Stallman, and his mother. The book received good reviews. License: GNU Free Documentation License ISBN: 0-596-00287-4 |
Free as in Freedom (2.0): Richard Stallman and the Free Software RevolutionAuthor: Sam Williams Description: This is a revision of Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software. Homepage: http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/faif-2.0.pdf License: GNU Free Documentation License ISBN: 978-0-9831592-1-6 Publishing date: 2010 |
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Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free SoftwareAuthor: Christopher M. Kelty Description: In Two Bits, Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software but also music, film, science, and education. Free Software is a set of practices devoted to the collaborative creation of software source code that is made openly and freely available through an unconventional use of copyright law. Kelty explains how these specific practices have reoriented the relations of power around the creation, dissemination, and authorization of all kinds of knowledge. He also makes an important contribution to discussions of public spheres and social imaginaries by demonstrating how Free Software is a “recursive public”—a public organized around the ability to build, modify, and maintain the very infrastructure that gives it life in the first place. Drawing on ethnographic research that took him from an Internet healthcare start-up company in Boston to media labs in Berlin to young entrepreneurs in Bangalore, Kelty describes the technologies and the moral vision that bind together hackers, geeks, lawyers, and other Free Software advocates. In each case, he shows how their practices and way of life include not only the sharing of software source code but also ways of conceptualizing openness, writing copyright licenses, coordinating collaboration, and proselytizing. By exploring in detail how these practices came together as the Free Software movement from the 1970s to the 1990s, Kelty also considers how it is possible to understand the new movements emerging from Free Software: projects such as Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that creates copyright licenses, and Connexions, a project to create an online scholarly textbook commons. ISBN: 0822389002 Homepage: http://twobits.net Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=wC2stJS83rYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Two+Bits&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=true Buy this book: http://www.amazon.com/Two-Bits-Cultural-Significance-Software/dp/0822342642 License: ??? |
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Producing Open Source SoftwareAuthor: Karl Fogel Description: The corporate market is now embracing free, "open source" software like never before, as evidenced by the recent success of the technologies underlying LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). Each is the result of a publicly collaborative process among numerous developers who volunteer their time and energy to create better software. The truth is, however, that the overwhelming majority of free software projects fail. To help you beat the odds, O'Reilly has put together Producing Open Source Software, a guide that recommends tried and true steps to help free software developers work together toward a common goal. Not just for developers who are considering starting their own free software project, this book will also help those who want to participate in the process at any level. The book tackles this very complex topic by distilling it down into easily understandable parts. Starting with the basics of project management, it details specific tools used in free software projects, including version control, IRC, bug tracking, and Wikis. Author Karl Fogel, known for his work on CVS and Subversion, offers practical advice on how to set up and use a range of tools in combination with open mailing lists and archives. He also provides several chapters on the essentials of recruiting and motivating developers, as well as how to gain much-needed publicity for your project. While managing a team of enthusiastic developers -- most of whom you've never even met -- can be challenging, it can also be fun. Producing Open Source Software takes this into account, too, as it speaks of the sheer pleasure to be had from working with a motivated team of free software developers. ISBN: 0596007590 Homepage: http://producingoss.com/ Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=0vbr7xvvzjgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=0596007590&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=true Buy this book: http://www.amazon.com/Producing-Open-Source-Software-Successful/dp/0596007590/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272193792&sr=1-1 License: ??? |
Social Institutions
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The Underground History of American EducationAuthor: John Taylor Gatto ISBN: 0945700059 Homepage: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=B0GLQgAACAAJ&dq=0945700059&cd=1 Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Underground_History_of_American_Education License: ??? |
Philosophy
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Man alone with himselfAuthor: Friedrich Nietzsche Description: Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual’s ‘will to power’. Homepage: http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/greatideas/index_3.html Google Books:' http://books.google.com/books?id=w73GLgAACAAJ&dq=man+alone+with+himself&as_brr=0&cd=1 Buy this book: http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141036687,00.html?sym=SYN License: ??? |
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The Future of an IllusionAuthor: Sigmund Freud Description: This investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth-century explores the role faith can take in the life of man, what it can mean to us and why as a species we are inclined towards it. Homepage: http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/greatideas/index_3.html Buy this book: http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141036762,00.html?sym=SYN License: ??? |