Ebooks Review

Information Tomorrow; Reflections on Technology and the Future of Public and Academic Libraries /by Rachel Singer Gordon. In Information Tomorrow, Rachel Singer Gordon brings together 20 of today's top thinkers on the intersections between libraries and technology.
They address various ways in which ... Read more »

Suicide Bombings (Shortcuts) /by Riaz Hassan. In an age when the Western world is preoccupied with worries about weapons of mass destruction in terrorist hands, terrorists across many parts of the globe are using a more basic device as a weapon – life itself.
Suicide bombing has become a ... Read more »

How to Fix Copyright /by William Patry. The arrival of the Internet was revolutionary, and one of the most tumultuous developments that flowed from it--the upending of the relatively settled world of copyright law--has forced us to completely rethink how rights to a work are allocated and how delivery formats affect an originator's cla ... Read more »

In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman: Mathematics at the Limits of Computation /by William Cook.What is the shortest possible route for a traveling salesman seeking to visit each city on a list exactly once and return to his city of origin? It sounds simple enough, yet the traveling salesman problem ... Read more »

The Enemy I Knew: German Jews in the Allied Military in World War II /by Steven Karras. Even Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize winning survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, struggles with the question: Why didn’t the Jews fight back? And finally, in view of the circumstances--even now, who would believe what was h ... Read more »

Better Homes & Gardens 365 30-Minute Meals /by Better Homes & Gardens. A mouthwatering collection of quick and delicious weeknight dinners the whole family will love year round
365 30-Minute Meals is filled with a years worth of fast, fresh and fun dinner ideas.
With quick, easy-to-prepare recipes o ... Read more »

The PHP Playbook /by Brandon Savage. Working with a team of developers is a much different environment than solo development. Experienced developers understand the tools and tricks that go into team development enterprises, and they implement them on a daily basis.
The PHP Playbook c ... Read more »

Crossing Barriers & Bridging Cultures /by Arturo Tosi. This text presents translators from different linguistic backgrounds discussing multilingual translation in the European Union.
All articles stress the political dimension of multilingualism, and the professional role of the translator as com ... Read more »