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The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide
David J. Perdue
No Starch Press, 2007
Fantastic manual to the Mindstorms NXT
I'm a coach of a FIRST LEGO League team and I bought this book to help my son "get to the next level." I am making this book mandatory for every team member next season! It is informative, yet easy to read. It covers all the bases from good robot design to programming ...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory (Complete Idiot's Guide to)
George Musser
Alpha, 2008
wide ranging
A chunk of the book covers relativity.
Quantum mechanics is presented with its incompatibilities.
With these formalities over with, string theory is discussed.
There are some difficulties here.
Profound conclusions are presented without much background.
The ...
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Real World Nikon Capture NX 2 (Real World)
Ben Long
Peachpit Press, 2008
Capture NX 2 from Nikon is a powerful image-editing application that lets photographers work with digital photographs with more speed and efficiency than other software programs. Its underlying technology gives photographers the ability to make selective corrections to an image with just one click. "Real World Capture NX 2," written by digital ...
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Nikon D80 Digital Field Guide
David D. Busch
Wiley, 2007
Nikon D80 Digital Field Guide
We just bought the D80 and was intereted in getting an education on the manual settings. We took a trip along the Alaska Highway and took 10,000 pictures in 7 days. We were able to take each setting and work on it while taking some extraordinary pictures. What you ...
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Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, ...
William Gurstelle
Chicago Review Press, 2001
A great guide for projects with your kids
Some of the stuff in here is dangerous, but kids will never respect danger if they don't experience a little firsthand. The projects in the book are a lot of fun and can teach you a lot about physics and chemistry.
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The Numerati
Stephen Baker
Houghton Mifflin, 2008
The Archetypes Behind the Numbers
Well worth the price of admission. The contribution is not so much in the reminder that we are in a data-rich information age and the tech-heads rule the world; we've known that for at least a decade (And have had plenty of time to prepare). I found useful and ...
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The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance and Repair: For Road and Mountain Bikes(Expanded and ...
Todd Downs
Rodale Books, 2005
Bike Repair
Excellent book! The best we have seen on the market! Highly recommend it to anyone.
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Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model (3rd Edition) (SIOP Series)
Jana Echevarria, MaryEllen Vogt, ...
Allyn & Bacon, 2007
Make this #1 choice for professional development
Mak[[ASIN:0205518869 Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model (3rd Edition) (SIOP Series)] is a "must read" for all ESOL educators in today's world of high stakes testing. The SIOP model described in this book is based on research of the best ...
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Prentice Hall Molecular Model Set For Organic Chemistry
Prentice Hall
Prentice Hall, 1983
Organic Chemistry Model Set
This produce is exactly what I thought it would be. I had one of these before and lost it, so I purchase another one from Amazon. It arrived expediently, and in perfect shape. I'd recommend this set to anyone taking College Inorganic or Organic Chemistry.
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Nikon D40/D40x Digital Field Guide
David D. Busch
Wiley, 2007
Great visuals and easy to follow
This book is filled with great pictures and details. Easy to find what you are working on at the moment.
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Posing Techniques for Photographing Model Portfolios
Billy Pegram
Amherst Media, Inc., 2008
Great for photographer and aspiring model.
I'm planning on doing senior portraits for high school kids in the near future and wanted to know some of the finer points about posing people. This book does go into great detail on things that my other books (see my reviews) doesn't. For example, the hand can be ...
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Marketing Metrics: 50+ Metrics Every Executive Should Master
Paul W. Farris, Neil T. Bendle, ...
Wharton School Publishing, 2006
Carry This Book with You
If a marketer really wants to be a good business person, then they should carry this book with them. I dislike hearing recent graduates say "Buy One Get One Free" when asked for promotion ideas. If you understand the financial consequences of that type of promotion ...
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Forbidden LEGO: Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against!
Ulrik Pilegaard, Mike Dooley
No Starch Press, 2007
More than just an instruction book
I've enjoyed with this book not only creating some of the creations it has, but also reading the LEGO design-related stories, guidelines and ideas the authors have written through all the chapters.
The pages format and design are very attractive and the building ...
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Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/400D Digital Field Guide
Charlotte K. Lowrie
Wiley, 2007
Perfect Accessory For The XTi
This book is invaluable to me as a beginning digital slr camera user. Well laid out and written. I highly recommend
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Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
Pattie Boyd, Penny Junor
Three Rivers Press, 2008
Very fun!
I really enjoyed this book. I thought her stories were frank and real. And she knows what details are best left private!!!
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