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1.		The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology from Viking Adult Price: $42.79 Customer Review: I love the idea of the singularity. I think Ray Kurzweil is a god among men. His enthusiasm and passion make me want to believe. But it may take my entire life to finish reading this book. It's dense and not very beginner-friendly for those of us who want to learn more about the topic. Don't let... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		MAKE: Electronics: Learning Through Discovery from Make Price: $20.00 Customer Review: The author uses an outdated analogy of electricity using a water tank to represent the batteries, and its this analogy that probably causes him to get the definition wrong on some physical quantities. I don't think it will cause any problem if your are just interested in hobby use and not interested... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book: A Beginner's Guide to Building and Programming Robots from No Starch Press Price: $18.47 Customer Review: Legos have gone far in the past few decades. "The Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 Discovery Book: A Beginner's Guide to Building and Programming Robots" is a guide to the programs and technological pursuits of Lego's newest Mindstorms toys that have been provoking the creativity of young builders. These... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century from Penguin Press HC, The Price: $9.56 Customer Review: "People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." Isaac Asimov Lot of the advanced new robot weaponry influenced and or inspired by science fiction writing. For example I Robot a company out of Burlington MA is named after the Asimov novel I robot. Many... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Mastering Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 from Sybex Price: $35.90 Customer Review: I find this book to be very comprehensive. The overall layout is logical with lots of great screen shots that make this very easy to read and apply. The authors' experience and character is conveyed through their writing. With over 1,000 pages this book contains a lot of valuable information for any... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Getting Started with Arduino (Make: Projects) from Make Price: $7.02 Customer Review: This was just exactly what the title says it is. For getting started with the Arduino its a fine book if you are going in dry. After reading the book in my case though I had already found most if not all the material on various websites so it was redundant. If you have not done any research on the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look at Making More Magic Real from Disney Editions Price: $36.83 Customer Review: I have every book I can find from the Imagineers. This book is the best of them all! The renderings are stunning, and the fold out displays are brilliant! Amazing book! Lots of details on Tokyo Disney and DisneySea.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Google^® SketchUp^® for Site Design: A Guide to Modeling Site Plans, Terrain and Architecture from Wiley Customer Review: The author's qualifications as both a practicing architect and an expert Sketchup user make this an outstanding tutorial, with a wealth of practical advice on both the craft of site planning and the ins and outs of Sketchup. The exercises themselves are real-world examples that touch on all the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Mastering AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011 from Sybex Price: $27.37 Customer Review: I bought Omura's book for AutoCAD 14 when I knew absolutely nothing about AutoCAD. It was a great help and guided me through the drawing process a step at a time presenting a new concept in each chapter. The 2011 version is the same but of course updated. I was able to skip through some things,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		The GIS 20: Essential Skills from ESRI Press Price: $26.37	Click here for more information


11.		MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications from Wiley Price: $32.95 Customer Review: The book is good. Waiting time is short. Everything is OK. However, the transporting fee is a little high.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library from O'Reilly Media Price: $36.47 Customer Review: I've purchased this book to learn OPenCV and gain understanding of theory behind computer vision techniques. The book is excellent introducing to the library and the concepts behind it. It is very well organized and written very professionally. You sure need to go out there sometimes and find more... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.	[no image]	Technical Drawing from Prentice Hall Price: $9.79 Customer Review: When originally published, this decades old book had exercises dimensioned in inches only. When the authors decided to include some exercises with metric dimensions, they reused old drawings, converted the measurements from inches to millimeters, rounded off to one decimal place, and DID NOT CHECK... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean from Harvard Business Press Price: $21.65 Customer Review: If you have never read design book or not a part of design community but wanting to know some aspect of it, this is the book for you. Otherwise, meh~~ Go for The Design of Everyday Things, A Fine Line, Emotional Design, About Face if you want some in-depth design insight.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		MRI in Practice (3rd Edition) from Wiley-Blackwell Price: $36.19 Customer Review: For the MRI beginner, this is an excellent textbook. It is easy to follow and understand the material in detail especially with the correlated simple illustrations.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop from ESRI Press Price: $50.37 Customer Review: This book is a great starter book and has pretty good illustrations with its instructions. ArcView takes a lot of instruction and so a self paced study of ArcGIS is not recommended. Take a class and learn it with a professor. The program still has many bugs and messes up things even though you've... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever from Plume Price: $1.99 Customer Review: I have only read a quarter of the book, but need read no more to review it! However I have indeed looked at a few parts later in the book that interested me, one of which is the small matter of alcohol. (A little is good for you; you will live longer; too much is bad - most of us know that.)more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Salesforce.com Secrets of Success: Best Practices for Growth and Profitability from Prentice Hall Price: $22.38 Customer Review: To be successful with Salesforce, you'll need an unusual combination of skills. You'll need to understand the cultures and best practices of sales and marketing, the politics of business change, and how to make effective use of all the technologies Salesforce offers to support these. That balance of... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Build Your Own CNC Machine (Technology in Action) from Apress Price: $24.73 Customer Review: To set the stage, I have one of the author's CNC machines. I bought his Blacktoe 4.0 kit and built it. I understand what is going into this machine. The book serves as a good foundation for how the machine works. I do not regret buying it. Realistically, the only people who are going to really... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Robot Building for Beginners (Technology in Action) from Apress Price: $20.54 Customer Review: The book does a great job of pacing the material and explaining things so that a beginner can understand. It goes through the parts and components you will need to be able to understand and identify in order to be able to build a robot then walks you through step by step on how to build your first... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.		Robot Building for Beginners (Technology in Action) from Apress Price: $20.54 Customer Review: The book does a great job of pacing the material and explaining things so that a beginner can understand. It goes through the parts and components you will need to be able to understand and identify in order to be able to build a robot then walks you through step by step on how to build your first... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011: No Experience Required from Sybex Price: $22.27 Customer Review: I have gleaned much information from this book which I think is very well constructed and well written. The work flow and logical order is ideal for the beginner and expert alike. The project is practical and encompasses real situations one might see in the real world. The power of Revit... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		SolidWorks 2010 Bible from Wiley Price: $27.17 Customer Review: The most comprehensive book on Solidworks I have seen. Essential for anyone using or contemplating using Solidworks. Great for learning your way around this solid modelling software and as a reference book once you are up and running. Don't try to live without it!	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		GIS Tutorial: Workbook for ArcView 9 from ESRI Press Price: $46.36 Customer Review: Excellent book, I am greatly pleased with the comprehensive description of the information. I do recommend that you buy it new however, the student version of ArcGIS on the CD label (CD included with the book) indicates that it is a onetime install; do not know if this is possible with a CD. Overall... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


25.		LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0: The King's Treasure (Technology in Action) from Apress Price: $16.69 Customer Review: My wife teaches robotics to kids in her school's evening clubs and also in various summer robotic camps in Silicon Valley CA, We bought this for teaching kids grades 5 thru' 8 and found that it has excellent resource for the teacher and kids alike. This book as an interesting storyline to read... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


26.		Lining Up Data in ArcGIS: A Guide to Map Projections from ESRI Press Price: $16.26 Customer Review: Presenting it in a simplistic and easy to use way, map data can deliver facts quickly and efficiently. "Lining Up Data in ArcGIS: A Guide to Map Projections" is a guide to understanding the program ArcGIS and what it can do for making the maps one needs. With step by step instructions assisted by... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move from Plume Price: $8.24 Customer Review: There are times I'll notify my friends when there's a great book that I highly recommend but much less common is a book I believe everyone really does need to read - that happens rarely but this is a time I'm doing exactly that and for good reason. If I had the money, I would buy up a hundred copies... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		Control Systems Engineering, 5th Edition from Wiley Price: $118.50 Customer Review: The book is extremely clear, lucid explanations and the mathematical treatments are very intuive and doesn't escape steps, this is a wonderful book to treasure for good. George Ellis's book, "control system design" is another flower in the garden.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques (Architecture Briefs) from Princeton Architectural Press Price: $12.44 Customer Review: this book is great for understanding the methods behind creating some of these amazing shapes and forms. Great digital process and fabrication methods.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.		The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide from No Starch Press Price: $17.99 Customer Review: This book does a good job by starting out with an introduction to LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotics, introducing to the pieces and letting the users know about the potential of the kit and what to expect. Building the robot essentials are also very well laid out and tell you how to make strong and... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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