Tag: nonfiction

SOFT SKILLS: A very useful ‘life manual’ for software developers – #programming #bookreview

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Soft Skills The Software Developer’s Life Manual John Z. Sonmez Manning – paperback I really wish I had had this book when I started a 14-year career in software development and testing. I was hired back in the days when you could get a software job by having a college degree (in anything), a couple of … Continue reading SOFT SKILLS: A very useful ‘life manual’ for software developers – #programming #bookreview

Twelve American Wars: Nine of Them Avoidable – Eugene G. Windchy’s new book is a true “must read” – #bookreview

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Twelve American Wars: Nine of Them Avoidable Eugene G. Windchy (iUniverse – paperback, Kindle) You may not agree with every opinion, conclusion or finding expressed in this book, but it is a remarkable work that definitely should be read and given thoughtful consideration. Twelve American Wars: Nine of Them Avoidable offers eye-opening looks at how the … Continue reading Twelve American Wars: Nine of Them Avoidable – Eugene G. Windchy’s new book is a true “must read” – #bookreview

Cloudera Administration Handbook – How to become an effective Big Data administrator of large Hadoop clusters – #bookreview

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    Cloudera Administration Handbook  Rohit Menon Packt Publishing – Kindle, paperback   The explosive growth and use of Big Data in business, government, science and other arenas has fueled a strong demand for new Hadoop administrators. The administrators’ key duty is to set up and maintain Hadoop clusters that help process and analyze massive amounts of … Continue reading Cloudera Administration Handbook – How to become an effective Big Data administrator of large Hadoop clusters – #bookreview

The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York – #bookreview

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  The Mob and the City The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York C. Alexander Hortis (Prometheus Books, Kindle, hardcover)   Forget The Godfather, its sequels and numerous other, famous “Mafia” movies. This excellent book cuts straight through the hype, fictions, and glamorizations to tell “the hidden history of how the street … Continue reading The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York – #bookreview

Confessions of a Book Burner – A novelist and poet’s engrossing journey to find her creativity and strength – #bookreview

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  Confessions of a Book Burner Lucha Corpi  (Arte Público Press – paperback )   In the Mexican state of Vera Cruz, a school teacher who knew the Corpi family let little four-year-old Lucha come to class with her older brother and spend each day sitting quietly at the back of the room. As Lucha watched and … Continue reading Confessions of a Book Burner – A novelist and poet’s engrossing journey to find her creativity and strength – #bookreview

Computing with Quantum Cats – Strange and exciting times are ahead – #science #bookreview

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Computing with Quantum Cats From Colossus to Qubits John Gribbin (Prometheus Books – hardcover, Kindle) John Gribbin’s new book, Computing with Quantum Cats, is an entertaining, informative and definitely eye-opening look at quantum computing’s recent progress, as well as its exciting near-future possibilities. The “conventional” (a.k.a. “classical”) computers currently on our desktops, in our briefcases, … Continue reading Computing with Quantum Cats – Strange and exciting times are ahead – #science #bookreview

Our Beautiful, Fragile World – Excellent photographs by an environmental artist – #bookreview

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Our Beautiful, Fragile World The Nature and Environmental Photographs of Peter Essick Peter Essick (Rocky Nook – hardcover, Kindle) Most of us are content to take a photograph and just settle for what we get under the current circumstances. That’s not how Peter Essick works. Essick has spent more than 25 years traveling to remote … Continue reading Our Beautiful, Fragile World – Excellent photographs by an environmental artist – #bookreview

BOOK BRIEFS: Movie Stunts, Famous Bandits and a World War I Regiment – #bookreview

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Cowboy Stuntman From Olympic Gold to the Silver Screen Dean Smith with Mike Cox (Texas Tech University Press – hardback, Kindle) Dean Smith won an Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter relays at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. Then the 20-year-old returned home to Northwest Texas, where he had been a rodeo cowboy. Later, … Continue reading BOOK BRIEFS: Movie Stunts, Famous Bandits and a World War I Regiment – #bookreview

Data Science for Business – A serious guide for those who need to know – #bigdata #bookreview

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Data Science for Business What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) This is not an introductory text for casual readers curious about the hoopla over data science and Big Data. And you definitely won’t find code here for simple screen scrapers written … Continue reading Data Science for Business – A serious guide for those who need to know – #bigdata #bookreview

Book Briefs: Cormac McCarthy, Prehistoric Central Texas, Rio Grande border – #bookreview

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Here are three specialized books for serious readers of specialized topics. The first provides a “comprehensive yet concise overview” of Cormac McCarthy’s “legacy in American literature.”  The second examines a 14th century civilization in Central Texas that “represents the last prehistoric peoples before the cultural upheaval introduced by European explorers.” And the third delves into … Continue reading Book Briefs: Cormac McCarthy, Prehistoric Central Texas, Rio Grande border – #bookreview