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| 1. |  | Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns from McGraw-Hill Price: $21.75 Customer Review:  Clayton Christensen has gained fame in researching how disruptive technologies are best brought to market in the world of business. He applies the results of this research to hypothesize how education methods uniquely tailored to each student through the use of computer led education are likely to... |
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| 2. |  | How to Be Invisible: The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Personal Privacy, Your Assets, and Your Life (Revised Edition) from Thomas Dunne Books Price: $16.47 Customer Review:  This book is an Introduction or Beginner's Guide to Privacy Protection. There was NOTHING New within the wasted pages of this book, all the information found in this volume can easily be had by simple research on the web, the only thing you will find in this book that you won't on the web is the... |
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| 3. | [no image] | Program Evaluation: An Introduction from Burnham, Inc. | |
| 4. |  | The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage from Pocket Price: $10.46 Customer Review:  all sorts of new stuff was going on with computers in the 1980s. It offered new opportunities for spies to steal military accounting and inventory records. Fortunately most people are incapable of deciphering military accounting and inventory records anyways. Clifford Stoll interjects just enough of... |
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| 5. |  | Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics from Rutgers University Press Price: $16.47 Customer Review: Great read for educated American voters over the age of 55...especially awaking to those over 65 who just "don't get it!" The message is hard to read after 50 or so pages. It isn't the language or the length of sentences; it's the level of information. This is a read for a quiet place, your... |
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| 6. |  | Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $19.79 Customer Review:  The book provides an excellent overview of various methods for knowledge aggregation and group collaboration, particularly statistical averaging, deliberation, prediction markets, wikis, open source projects, and blogs. Sunstein provides a penetrating and balanced analysis of both the potential... |
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| 7. |  | Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0 from Basic Books Price: $13.84 Customer Review: If you take Web 2.0 at all seriously then, whatever your political or philosophical persuasion, Larry Lessig's Code: Version 2.0 is a compulsory read. My own political and philosophical persuasion is considerably different from Lessig's and consequently I don't entirely agree with either his... |
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| 8. |  | The Cult of the Amateur: How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values from Broadway Books Price: $11.20 Customer Review: The author mix culture with the culture industry. It's not the same and the Internet is doing quite a lot for distributing culture to more people. There're are people who hasn't the access the author has to books and records. I recommend the fellow to travel. His vision of the newspaper... |
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| 9. |  | Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World. from Springer Price: $16.50 Customer Review: Nutshell review - A great read. Entertaining and informative. So well written and very useful at the same time. |
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| 10. | [no image] | An Spss Companion to Political Analysis from CQ Press Customer Review: Great textbook! Very easy to follow. Information is given in just the right quantity, not too repetitive to the point where it gets boring, but repetitive enough to help you remember. I have to admit that I enjoy the exercises in this book so much that I've actually worked ahead a few weeks in my... |
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| 11. |  | We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People from O'Reilly Media, Inc. Price: $11.55 Customer Review: My online journalism class will read this book in the fall. It's a key text for introducing people to the possibilities in digital media and citizen journalism. |
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| 12. |  | The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State from Simon & Schuster Customer Review: This is a very interesting book with disturbing implications: the authors contend that, in our lifetimes we will see the messy demise of nation states, with the most advanced of the Western democracies falling the farthest and hardest. The grim future they depict is essentially that of Stephenson's... |
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| 13. |  | Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man : Critical Edition from Gingko Press Price: $16.47 Customer Review: At 16 (1977) I discovered the original paperback Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man and it changed my world and the way I perceive every aspect of modern culture and technology forever. Throughout college, graduate school and a life of writing I have consistently supported my arguments and... |
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| 14. |  | Research Methods in Political Science: An Introduction Using MicroCase® ExplorIt from Wadsworth Publishing Price: $76.75 Customer Review: I can't improve on Dr. Charlie Leonard's review so let me simply ratify his well chosen words. Le Roy and Corbett put the student in the driver's seat with powerful but easy-to-use software, an excellent assortment of data sets, and for the most part well crafted assignments that nicely complement... |
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| 15. |  | Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $14.35 Customer Review: A book based on facts, but written to be read as fiction. Once you start, you don't leave it. Makes you smile, and makes you think about new economy and what governments can and should do. |
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| 16. |  | The Myth of Digital Democracy from Princeton University Press Price: $16.52 | |
| 17. |  | No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog from Peachpit Press Price: $13.59 Customer Review: These ideas are about as creative and original as writing about what you had for lunch. The book is skinny, the writing ideas are brief, and the content of the ideas is really thin. I've seen more interesting writing prompts in grade school writing classes. Really wish I would have read... |
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| 18. |  | The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Revised Ed: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything from Harper Paperbacks Price: $10.85 Customer Review: The first edition of this book put the building of the 2003-2004 online revolution into an understandable context. A dozen lifetimes and generations later, we find ourselves leaving 2008 with a world turned upside down by online power. This new edition of Joe Trippi's absorbing book sets out not... |
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| 19. |  | Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age, (American Casebook Series®) (American Casebook Series) from West Group Price: $117.00 Customer Review: A truly useful and intriguing work, this book abandons the traditional division of topics along doctrinal lines and chooses to group the subjects according to the way they challenge our established beliefs. Therefore, the reader encounters a chapter on "Geography and Sovereignty" rather than... |
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| 20. |  | Using Statistical Methods in Social Work Practice: A Complete Spss Guide from Lyceum Books Price: $43.95 Customer Review: This book is useful to those without much statistics background. The contents are quite concise and deliver in simple terms with examples. Unlike other tool guides on SPSS, the examples cited in the book are especially relevant to soical work and the beginner can either apply directly or modify from... |
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