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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		MAKE: Electronics: Learning Through Discovery from Make Price: $20.00 Customer Review: The author uses an outdated analogy of electricity using a water tank to represent the batteries, and its this analogy that probably causes him to get the definition wrong on some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: $5.99 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.		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


6.		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


7.		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


8.		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


9.		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


10.		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


11.		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


12.		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


13.		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


14.		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


15.		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


16.		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


17.		Robot Builder's Bonanza, Third Edition from McGraw Hill Text Customer Review: I find this a great book with specific and deep knoledge, I recomend it strongly	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change from Wiley Price: $43.64 Customer Review: This textbook offers a wide-range of contemporary and relevant information with regards to "Innovation" in the 21st century. We in the Caribbean (Arthur Lok Jack - Graduate School of Business) have found this book as an excellent resource that generates many discussion and insight. Personally,... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.	[no image]	Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth from Pocket Price: $20.00 Customer Review: Buckminster Fuller was a remarkable genius whose works are absolutely unique. This book is a good introduction to his transcendent way of thinking. It describes for the first time, the concept that our little planet has finite resources, and since it was written, we have seen that he sensed... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems from Prentice Hall Price: $85.00 Customer Review: This book was exactly what the class required and was very helpful in learning the material. More so than the professor.	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.		Arduino Cookbook (Oreilly Cookbooks) from O'Reilly Media Price: $26.39	Click here for more information


22.		Schaum's Outline of Feedback and Control Systems (Schaum's) from McGraw-Hill Price: $9.55 Customer Review: I'm grateful This book is very good for several study level in witch is necessary, some time, a fast consult	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		LEGO Mindstorms NXT Power Programming: Robotics in C from Variant Press Price: $17.83 Customer Review: I bought this book as an experiment because I really wanted to teach my students to use Java on their NXTs. I was surprised by how well the book explains C programming on the NXT and delighted by the many excellent examples. We were able to get a program running on the first day. We did not use but... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		Programmable Logic Controllers from Career Education Price: $85.28 Customer Review: Required text for 3 of my courses. Petruzella takes a great approach in Programmable Logic Controllers. The content is condensed for fast reading, but very clear. Highly recommended if new to PLCs.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


25.		LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT: The Mayan Adventure (Technology in Action) from Apress Price: $3.35 Customer Review: Thank Goodness that this book is not a User manual or Engineering documents that one has to refer to build robots! My wife teaches robotics to kids in school's evening clubs and also in various summer camps in Silicon Valley CA, We bought this for teaching kids grades 5 thru' 8. The last thing we... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


26.		CNC Programming Handbook from Industrial Press, Inc. Price: $72.04 Customer Review: I recently built a 4x4 CNC router with an indexer (Joe's Hybrid) but had never programmed a CNC machine. This book is a textbook that has everything I need to know or will ever need to know. It makes a great reference book when I need to review a topic. Best CNC programming book and necessary to get... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		Toyota Camry 1997 thru 2001 Haynes: All Camary Models Includes Avalon, Solara & Lexus ES 300 from Haynes Price: $14.27 Customer Review: Great value. Minor defect in manual as advertized, but otherwise new and unused. Manual helped me diagnose and fix the car's problem myself. Saved me big bucks!	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		Creating Cool MINDSTORMS NXT Robots (Technology in Action) from Apress Price: $3.94 Customer Review: I am a beginner with Mindstorms NXT so I usually stay away from "advanced" books. But when I've seen this book in a local bookstore I decided I had to get it - the way theory aspects are presented and explained, the building instructions, the code, everything seemed really accessible. And now... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT One-Kit Wonders: Ten Inventions to Spark Your Imagination from No Starch Press Price: $16.99 Customer Review: agree, an interesting book, but I don't know what "one kit" they are talking about. we've tried 3 projects and every one has a number of key pieces that are not in the Nxt kit. actually, we have about 20 large lego sets and we still didn't have the right pieces. Additionally, we found the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.		Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications, Second Edition from Springer Price: $24.00 Customer Review: This book covers the concepts and algorithms concisely and hence forms a very handy reference to Computational Geometry. You could use this as the starting point for any Comp Geom application and build on that. I am pretty happy with this buy!	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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