Saturday, January 11, 2025

iTunes Store: Top 25 Books in Professional & Technical 2025-01-12

Max Tegmark - Life 3.0 artwork Life 3.0
Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark
Genre: Engineering
Price: $2.99
Publish Date: August 29, 2017
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.   How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income or purpose? What career advice should we give today’s kids? How can we make future AI systems more robust, so that they do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, replacing humans on the job market and perhaps altogether? Will AI help life flourish like never before or give us more power than we can handle?   What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. It doesn’t shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issues—from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness and the ultimate physical limits on life in the cosmos.



The Modern Language Association of America - MLA Handbook artwork MLA Handbook
9th Edition
The Modern Language Association of America
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
Price: $37.99
Publish Date: April 22, 2021
Publisher: The Modern Language Association of America
Seller: NetRead Software and Services, LLC

Relied on by generations of writers, the MLA Handbook is published by the Modern Language Association and is the only official, authorized book on MLA style. The new, ninth edition builds on the MLA's unique approach to documenting sources using a template of core elements-- facts, common to most sources, like author, title, and publication date-- that allows writers to cite any type of work, from books, e-books, and journal articles in databases to song lyrics, online images, social media posts, dissertations, and more. With this focus on source evaluation as the cornerstone of citation, MLA style promotes the skills of information and digital literacy so crucial today. The many new and updated chapters make this edition the comprehensive, go-to resource for writers of research papers, and anyone citing sources, from business writers, technical writers, and freelance writers and editors to student writers and the teachers and librarians working with them. Intended for a variety of classroom contexts--middle school, high school, and college courses in composition, communication, literature, language arts, film, media studies, digital humanities, and related fields--the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook offers • New chapters on grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, numbers, italics, abbreviations, and principles of inclusive language • Guidelines on setting up research papers in MLA format with updated advice on headings, lists, and title pages for group projects • Revised, comprehensive, step-by-step instructions for creating a list of works cited in MLA format that are easier to learn and use than ever before • A new appendix with hundreds of example works-cited-list entries by publication format, including websites, YouTube videos, interviews, and more • Detailed examples of how to find publication information for a variety of sources • Newly revised explanations of in-text citations, including comprehensive advice on how to cite multiple authors of a single work • Detailed guidance on footnotes and endnotes • Instructions on quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing, and avoiding plagiarism • A sample essay in MLA format • Annotated bibliography examples • Numbered sections throughout for quick navigation • Advanced tips for professional writers and scholars



Kevin Plummer & Arthur Rahn - Rahn's Textbook of Complete Dentures 6e artwork Rahn's Textbook of Complete Dentures 6e
Kevin Plummer & Arthur Rahn
Genre: Medical
Price: $39.99
Publish Date: August 31, 2009
Publisher: PMPH-USA, Ltd.
Seller: PMPH-USA, Ltd

The Sixth Edition presents various aspects of the basic principles of complete denture prosthodontics. The text is technique-oriented and relates the basic sciences of anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and psychology with the art and mechanics involved in complete denture construction. This clinically oriented and well-illustrated book will provide the essential information to successfully treat complete denture patients in any dental practice environment.



Hannah Beach & Tamara Neufeld Strijack - Reclaiming Our Students artwork Reclaiming Our Students
Hannah Beach & Tamara Neufeld Strijack
Genre: Education
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: April 14, 2020
Publisher: Hannah Beach
Seller: Draft2Digital, LLC

Children are more anxious, aggressive, and shut down than ever. Faced with this epidemic of emotional health crises and behavioural problems, teachers are asking themselves what went wrong. Why have we lost our students? More importantly: How can we get them back? Hannah Beach, a celebrated educator and specialist in the field of emotional health, and Tamara Neufeld Strijack, clinical counsellor and academic dean of the acclaimed Neufeld Institute, provide a thoughtful guide to restoring the student-teacher relationship and creating the conditions for change. Reclaiming Our Students empowers teachers with relationship-based strategies to restore their leadership role and build emotional safety in the classroom. You’ll learn: • How to build, feed, and protect the student-teacher relationship • Why children are anxious or bossy, aggressive or checked out, and what you can do to address these behavioural issues at their root • How you can help students and classes shift their identity as the “problem student” or “bad class” • Experiential activities for students of all ages that preserve and restore emotional health and well-being Plus, you’ll find special considerations and information for parents, principals, counsellors, and home educators for building safety and support in the learning environment. Combining Hannah’s groundbreaking experiential approach to creating emotional health and community in the classroom with the Neufeld Institute’s insightful approach to building relationships and making sense of children, Reclaiming Our Students is required reading for teachers who not only want to understand and overcome daily challenges, but also re-connect to their calling as educators.



Deb Chachra - How Infrastructure Works artwork How Infrastructure Works
Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
Deb Chachra
Genre: Civil Engineering
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: October 17, 2023
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece.” —Ed Yong, author of An Immense World A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a century ago. It is the physical manifestation of our social contract—of our ability to work collectively for the public good—and it consists of the most complex and vast technological systems ever created by humans. A soaring bridge is an obvious infrastructural feat, but so are the mostly hidden reservoirs, transformers, sewers, cables, and pipes that deliver water, energy, and information to wherever we need it. When these systems work well, they hide in plain sight. Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes readers on a fascinating tour of these essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs. Across the U.S. and elsewhere, these systems are suffering from systemic neglect and the effects of climate change, becoming unavoidably visible when they break down. Communities that are already marginalized often bear the brunt of these failures. But Chachra maps out a path for transforming and rebuilding our shared infrastructure to be not just functional but also equitable, resilient, and sustainable. The cost of not being able to rely on these systems is unthinkably high. We need to learn how to see them—and fix them, together—before it’s too late.



John A. Goodman - Customer Experience 3.0 artwork Customer Experience 3.0
High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Techno Service
John A. Goodman
Genre: Engineering
Price: $19.99
Publish Date: August 12, 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Christian Publishing
Seller: OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC

Customer Experience 3.0 provides firsthand guidance on what works, what doesn't--and the revenue and word-of-mouth payoff of getting it right. Between smartphones, social media, mobile connectivity, and a plethora of other technological innovations changing the way we do almost everything these days, your customers are expecting you to be taking advantage of it all to enhance their customer service experience far beyond the meeting-the-minimum experiences of days past. Unfortunately, many companies are failing to take advantage of and properly manage these service-enhancing tools that now exist, and in return they deliver a series of frustrating, disjointed transactions that end up driving people away and into the pockets of businesses getting it right. Having managed more than 1,000 separate customer service studies, author John A. Goodman has created an innovative customer-experience framework and step-by-step roadmap that shows you how to: Design and deliver flawless services and products while setting honest customer expectationsCreate and implement an effective customer access strategyCapture and leverage the voice of the customer to set priorities and improve products, services and marketingUse CRM systems, cutting-edge metrics, and other tools to deliver customer satisfaction Companies who get customer service right can regularly provide seamless experiences, seeming to know what customers want even before they know it themselves…while others end up staying generic, take stabs in the dark to try and fix the problem, and end up dropping the ball. Customer Experience 3.0 reveals how to delight customers using all the technological tools at their disposal.



Simon Paré-Poupart - Ordures! artwork Ordures!
Journal d’un vidangeur
Simon Paré-Poupart
Genre: Environmental Engineering
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: September 05, 2024
Publisher: Lux Éditeur
Seller: De Marque, Inc.

En lisant ce journal d’un vidangeur, vous ferez la découverte d’un monde dont vous ne soupçonniez pas l’existence. Un rassemblement d’excentriques et de personnages plus ou moins intégrés à la vie normale qui travaillent sur la ligne de crête entre ce que notre société considère propre et ce qu’elle juge sale. Qui sont ces athlètes qui courent nos rues chaque semaine derrière des camions, qu’il neige, qu’il pleuve ou qu’il fasse trop chaud? Quelle est leur vision du compostage, du recyclage, de la récupération? Qu’ont-ils à raconter sur une époque qui génère en abondance des ordures? Voilà autant de questions auxquelles répond ce récit captivant.



Dennis Bulani - What A Farmer Wants You to Know About Food artwork What A Farmer Wants You to Know About Food
Dennis Bulani
Genre: Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
Price: $15.99
Publish Date: December 03, 2024
Publisher: Ultimate Yield Press
Seller: Ingram DV LLC

Do you brace yourself before you step into the grocery store every week? List in hand, budget in mind, prepared to navigate the minefield of labels and claims in the name of nourishing your family? "Organic...free-range...grain-fed...local...GMO-free water?? I just want to take care of my family." Grocery shopping should feel good. You should be able to feed yourself and your family without worrying you chose the wrong product. You've got questions-good ones, and for good reasons. You're experiencing information overload, getting all sorts of conflicting information every day...and unfortunately, most of the information out there isn't from the people best equipped to speak: the people who grow it. Until now. You have questions about how your food is grown. This book gives you a science-based perspective about not only how it's grown, but why, so you can feel good again about the food you and your family eat. What a Farmer Wants You to Know About Food seeks to add the farmer's voice to the mainstream conversation about where our food comes from. From GMOs to pesticides, from preservatives to fertilizers-and even the ethics of food production, this book answers the questions you have (and probably a few you didn't know you had!).



Ellen Lupton - Thinking with Type artwork Thinking with Type
A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (3rd Edition, Revised and Expanded)
Ellen Lupton
Genre: Design
Price: $23.99
Publish Date: March 12, 2024
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Seller: Chronicle Books LLC

The essential and bestselling guide to typography from beloved design educator Ellen Lupton—revised and expanded to include new and additional voices, examples, and principles, and a wider array of typefaces. "Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."—I Love Typography   The bestselling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded third edition: This is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication. Covering the essentials of typography, this book explores everything from typefaces and type families to kerning and tracking to grids and layout principles. Ellen Lupton provides clear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped. Historical and contemporary examples of graphic design show how to learn the rules and how to break them. Critical essays, eye-opening diagrams, helpful exercises, and dozens of examples and illustrations show readers how to be inventive within systems that inform and communicate. Featuring 32 pages of new content, the third edition is revised and refined from cover to cover:More fonts: old fonts, new fonts, weird fonts, libre fonts, Google fonts, Adobe fonts, fonts from independent foundries, and fonts and lettering by women and BIPOC designersIntroductions to diverse writing systems, contributed by expert typographers from around the worldDemonstrations of basic design principles, such as vi­sual balance, Gestalt grouping, and responsive layoutCurrent approaches to typeface design, includingVariable fonts and optical sizesTips for readability, legibility, and accessibilityStunning reproductions from the Letterform ArchiveThinking with Type is the typography book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, anyone who works with words on page or screen, and enthusiasts of type and lettering. Readers will also love Ellen Lupton's book Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers.



Ashlee Vance - Elon Musk artwork Elon Musk
Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance
Genre: Civil Engineering
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: May 19, 2015
Publisher: Ecco
Seller: Harper Collins Canada Limited

A New York Times Bestseller In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs—a real-life Tony Stark—and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new “makers.” Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who sold one of his Internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius’s life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his dramatic technical innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits. Vance uses Musk’s story to explore one of the pressing questions of our age: can the nation of inventors and creators who led the modern world for a century still compete in an age of fierce global competition? He argues that Musk—one of the most unusual and striking figures in American business history—is a contemporary, visionary amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs. More than any other entrepreneur today, Musk has dedicated his energies and his own vast fortune to inventing a future that is as rich and far-reaching as the visionaries of the golden age of science-fiction fantasy. Thorough and insightful, Elon Musk brings to life a technology industry that is rapidly and dramatically changing by examining the life of one of its most powerful and influential titans.



Paul MacRae - Business and Professional Writing: A Basic Guide - Second Canadian Edition artwork Business and Professional Writing: A Basic Guide - Second Canadian Edition
Paul MacRae
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
Price: $44.99
Publish Date: May 13, 2019
Publisher: Broadview Press
Seller: De Marque, Inc.

Straightforward, practical, and focused on realistic examples, Business and Professional Writing: A Basic Guide is an introduction to the fundamentals of professional writing. The book emphasizes clarity, conciseness, and plain language. Guidelines and templates for business correspondence, formal and informal reports, brochures and press releases, and oral presentations are included. Exercises guide readers through the process of creating and revising each genre, and helpful tips, reminders, and suggested resources beyond the book are provided throughout. The second edition includes new sections on information security and ethics in business writing. New formal proposal examples have been added, and the text has been updated throughout.



Caroline Counts - Seventh Edition Core Curriculum for Nephrology Nursing artwork Seventh Edition Core Curriculum for Nephrology Nursing
Caroline Counts
Genre: Medical
Price: $4.99
Publish Date: July 01, 2020
Publisher: American Nephrology Nurses Association
Seller: Lulu Enterprises, Inc.

This comprehensive, peer-reviewed resource sets the standard for nephrology nursing clinical practice. Written by experts in the field, the 2020 edition presents the newest information regarding kidney disease, its treatment, and the nursing care involved. New and updated content reflects current policy and terminology, including health information technology, collaboration with ESRD Networks, economics of ESRD reimbursement, nutritional needs of patients undergoing bariatric surgery, nutritional needs of pregnant patients, advance care planning, palliative care, and end-of-life care. The seventh edition contains almost 1,800 pages divided into two volumes, includes self-assessment questions, and provides more than 60 nursing continuing professional development contact hours and almost 12 pharmacology hours.



Keith N. Frayn - Understanding Human Metabolism artwork Understanding Human Metabolism
Keith N. Frayn
Genre: Medical
Price: $15.99
Publish Date: September 08, 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Seller: Cambridge University Press

Does eating more carbohydrates, or fats, cause one to put on more weight? Are ketone bodies toxins or vital products that keep us alive during starvation? Does the concept of 'fat-burning exercise' hold true? In this game-changing book, Keith Frayn, an international expert in human metabolism and nutrition, dispels common misconceptions about human metabolism, explaining in everyday language the important metabolic processes that underlie all aspects of our daily lives. Illustrated throughout with clear diagrams of metabolic processes, Frayn describes the communication systems that enable our different organs and tissues to cooperate, for instance in providing fuel to our muscles when we exercise, and in preserving our tissues during fasting. He explores the impressive adaptability of human metabolism and discusses the metabolic disorders that can arise when metabolism 'goes wrong'. For anyone sceptical of information about diet and lifestyle, this concise book guides the reader through what metabolism really involves.



Norman Lewis - Word Power Made Easy artwork Word Power Made Easy
The Complete Handbook for Building a Superior Vocabulary
Norman Lewis
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
Price: $4.99
Publish Date: March 18, 2014
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

The most effective vocabulary builder in the English language provides a simple, step-by-step method that will increase your knowledge and mastery of written and spoken English. Word Power Made Easy does more than just add words to your vocabulary. It teaches ideas and a method of broadening your knowledge as an integral part of the vocabulary building process.   Do you always use the right word? Can you pronounce it—and spell it—correctly? Do you know how to avoid illiterate expressions? Do you speak grammatically, without embarrassing mistakes? If the answer to any of these questions is no, you need Word Power Made Easy . Written in a lively, accessible, and timeless style, and loaded with helpful reviews, progress checks, and quizzes to reinforce the material, this classic resource has helped millions learn to speak and write with confidence. 



Jean-Marie Le Pen - Mémoires : Fils de la nation artwork Mémoires : Fils de la nation
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
Price: $24.99
Publish Date: February 28, 2018
Publisher: Muller Editions
Seller: Hachette Livre

Un nouveau regard sur Le Pen : le sien   «  Mes grands-parents ne savaient pas lire mais surent donner une vie décente à leurs enfants. Ma paysanne de mère était élégante et fière, mon père, patron pêcheur taciturne, avait navigué pendant la Grande guerre, à treize ans, mousse sur un cap-hornier, ces cathédrales de toile et de bois qui affrontaient les quarantièmes rugissants. A la maison, il n’y avait pas l'eau courante mais on aimait sa famille, son pays et Dieu – et la Bretagne aussi, avec ses îles, ses navires. L’instituteur et le curé nous apprenaient à les chanter ensemble. En somme, j’étais un petit Breton heureux dans la grande France.  Puis vint la Seconde guerre mondiale. Le père est mort, la France était blessée, des curés m’ont dégoûté de Dieu. C’est alors que j’ai découvert la folie des hommes, Paris, l’université, l’Indochine, l’Assemblée nationale, l’Algérie. J’eus une épouse et des filles. La vie s’offrait, tantôt magnifique, tantôt désolante. Le petit Breton avait grandi, la France rapetissé. Pour la relever, j’ai choisi le combat politique.  »



Sönke Ahrens - How to Take Smart Notes. One Simple Technique to Boost Writing,  Learning and Thinking artwork How to Take Smart Notes. One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
Sönke Ahrens
Genre: Education
Price: $12.99
Publish Date: March 09, 2022
Publisher: Sönke Ahrens
Seller: Draft2Digital, LLC

This is the second, revised and expanded edition. The first edition was published under the slightly longer title "How to Take Smart Notes. One Simple Technique to Boost Writing,  Learning and Thinking - for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers". The key to good and efficient writing lies in the intelligent organisation of ideas and notes. This book helps students, academics and other knowledge workers to get more done, write intelligent texts and learn for the long run. It teaches you how to take smart notes and ensure they bring you and your projects forward. The Take Smart Notes principle is based on established psychological insight and draws from a tried and tested note-taking technique: the Zettelkasten. This is the first comprehensive guide and description of this system in English, and not only does it explain how it works, but also why. It suits students and academics in the social sciences and humanities, nonfiction writers and others who are in the business of reading, thinking and writing. Instead of wasting your time searching for your notes, quotes or references, you can focus on what really counts: thinking, understanding and developing new ideas in writing. Dr. Sönke Ahrens is a writer and researcher in the field of education and social science. He is the author of the award-winning book "Experiment and Exploration: Forms of World Disclosure" (Springer). Since its first publication, How to Take Smart Notes has sold more than 10,000 copies and has been translated into seven languages.



Jason Thompson - IELTS - 50 Vocabulary Tests - 500 Words By Meaning artwork IELTS - 50 Vocabulary Tests - 500 Words By Meaning
Jason Thompson
Genre: Education
Price: $2.99
Publish Date: August 09, 2014
Publisher: Jason Thompson
Seller: Anh Ngo

A great variety of English tests that will help you increase your IELTS test score. In a few minutes you'll be able to start practicing and testing your IELTS vocabulary skills in both an effective and pleasant way. You will experience a new and exciting method of increasing your IELTS word power. With this book you will be able to delve into the depths of IELTS vocabulary and explore its diversity and richness. If you use your IELTS Test book the right way, you will become wiser and wealthier too. So read on and enjoy the ride! Learning IELTS vocabulary words fast is simple but it certainly isn't easy. There is one single word that describes the secret to improving your IELTS vocabulary: HABITS. Yes, you've heard that right. In a few moments you will get access to a tool that helps you develop the habits you need to improve your IELTS word power constantly. Every day of every week. - More than 50 Tests - More than 500 Words By Meaning - Answers support - Multiple choice



Lina Zeldovich - The Living Medicine artwork The Living Medicine
How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost—and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
Lina Zeldovich
Genre: Medical
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: October 22, 2024
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Seller: Macmillan

A remarkable story of the scientists behind a long-forgotten and life-saving cure: the healing viruses that can conquer antibiotic resistant bacterial infections First discovered in 1917, bacteriophages—or “phages”—are living medicines: viruses that devour bacteria. Ubiquitous in the environment, they are found in water, soil, inside plants and animals, and in the human body. When phages were first recognized as medicines, their promise seemed limitless. Grown by research scientists and physicians in France, the Soviet Union, and elsewhere to target specific bacteria, they cured cholera, dysentery, bubonic plague, and other deadly infectious diseases. But after Stalin’s brutal purges and the rise of antibiotics, phage therapy declined and nearly was lost to history—until today. In The Living Medicine, acclaimed science journalist Lina Zeldovich reveals the remarkable history of phages, told through the lives of the French, Soviet, and American scientists who discovered, developed, and are reviving this unique cure for seemingly-intractable diseases. Ranging from Paris to Soviet Georgia to Egypt, India, Kenya, Siberia, and America, The Living Medicine shows how phages once saved tens of thousands of lives. Today, with our antibiotic shield collapsing, Zeldovich demonstrates how phages are making our food safe and, in cases of dire emergency, rescuing people from the brink of death. They may be humanity’s best defense against the pandemics to come. Filled with adventure, human ambition, tragedy, technology, irrepressible scientists and the excitement of their innovation, The Living Medicine offers a vision of how our future may be saved by knowledge from the past.



Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren - How to Read a Book artwork How to Read a Book
Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
Price: $13.99
Publish Date: May 10, 2011
Publisher: Touchstone
Seller: Simon & Schuster Canada

With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. A CNN Book of the Week: “Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. It's masterfully done.” –Farheed Zakaria Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them—from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Readers will learn when and how to “judge a book by its cover,” and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author’s message from the text. Also included is instruction in the different techniques that work best for reading particular genres, such as practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science works. Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests you can use measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension, and speed.



Don Norman - The Design of Everyday Things artwork The Design of Everyday Things
Revised and Expanded Edition
Don Norman
Genre: Design
Price: $17.99
Publish Date: November 05, 2013
Publisher: Basic Books
Seller: Hachette Digital, Inc.

One of the world's great designers shares his vision of "the fundamental principles of great and meaningful design", that's "even more relevant today than it was when first published" (Tim Brown, CEO, IDEO).   Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door.   The fault, argues this ingenious -- even liberating -- book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. The problems range from ambiguous and hidden controls to arbitrary relationships between controls and functions, coupled with a lack of feedback or other assistance and unreasonable demands on memorization.   The Design of Everyday Things shows that good, usable design is possible. The rules are simple: make things visible, exploit natural relationships that couple function and control, and make intelligent use of constraints. The goal: guide the user effortlessly to the right action on the right control at the right time.   The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how -- and why -- some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them.  



Scott Turow - One L artwork One L
An Inside Account of Life in the First Year at Harvard Law School
Scott Turow
Genre: Law
Price: $12.99
Publish Date: August 03, 2010
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Seller: Macmillan

One L , Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school introduces and a best-seller when it was first published in 1977, has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students. Not only does it introduce with remarkable clarity the ideas and issues that are the stuff of legal education; it brings alive the anxiety and competiveness--with others and, even more, with oneself--that set the tone in this crucible of character building. Turow's multidimensional delving into his protagonists' psyches and his marvelous gift for suspense prefigure the achievements of his celebrated first novel, Presumed Innocent , one of the best-selling and most talked about books of 1987. Each September, a new crop of students enter Harvard Law School to begin an intense, often grueling, sometimes harrowing year of introduction to the law. Turow's group of One Ls are fresh, bright, ambitious, and more than a little daunting. Even more impressive are the faculty: Perini, the dazzling, combative professor of contracts, who presents himself as the students' antagonist in their struggle to master his subject; Zechman, the reserved professor of torts who seems so indecisive the students fear he cannot teach; and Nicky Morris, a young, appealing man who stressed the humanistic aspects of law. Will the One Ls survive? Will they excel? Will they make the Law Review , the outward and visible sign of success in this ultra-conservative microcosm? With remarkable insight into both his fellows and himself, Turow leads us through the ups and downs, the small triumphs and tragedies of the year, in an absorbing and throught-provoking narrative that teaches the reader not only about law school and the law but about the human beings who make them what they are. In the new afterword for this edition of One L , the author looks back on law school from the perspective of ten years' work as a lawyer and offers some suggestions for reforming legal education.



Peggy M. Houghton - APA:  The Easy Way (Updated for 7th Edition) artwork APA: The Easy Way (Updated for 7th Edition)
Peggy M. Houghton
Genre: Education
Price: $10.99
Publish Date: February 20, 2020
Publisher: Xanedu
Seller: Houghton & Houghton

This reference book, updated for the 7th edition of the APA, simplifies the process of writing using the APA writing style. Writing in the APA format can be a formidable process. The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th edition) was developed as a writing technique utilized by both academic and nonacademic institutions and publications. While this reputable manual is the official guide, it is not explicitly targeted at academic scholarly writing . . . particularly student papers. APA: The Easy Way! (7th edition) specifically focuses on the development of academic writing. It highlights related aspects of the manual while providing examples that simplify the writing process. While the official publication distinguishes between professional and student papers, this book focuses primarily on the student paper format. Included in APA: The Easy Way! are the essentials of APA writing style. The book is divided into three sections. Part one focuses on the mechanics of APA format as well as internal text citations; part two emphasizes the actual reference page entries; and part three provides a sample paper. Combined with the official manual, Houghton & Houghton's handbook will ease the anguish and anxiety that APA writing style presents!



Kim Addonizio & Dorianne Laux - The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry artwork The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
Kim Addonizio & Dorianne Laux
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: November 22, 2010
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Seller: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

From the nuts and bolts of craft to the sources of inspiration, this book is for anyone who wants to write poetry-and do it well. The Poet's Companion presents brief essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and suggested subjects for writing, each followed by distinctive writing exercises. The ups and downs of writing life—including self-doubt and writer's block—are here, along with tips about getting published and writing in the electronic age. On your own, this book can be your "teacher," while groups, in or out of the classroom, can profit from sharing weekly assignments.



Sandra M. Bodin - Contemporary Nephrology Nursing, 4th Edition artwork Contemporary Nephrology Nursing, 4th Edition
Sandra M. Bodin
Genre: Medical
Price: $249.99
Publish Date: September 26, 2022
Publisher: American Nephrology Nurses Association
Seller: Lulu Enterprises, Inc.

The scope of this respected and trusted classic has been expanded to include the most complete collection of nephrology nursing topics ever published. An excellent resource for nephrology nurses working in all care settings with all ages of patients, nursing faculty in instructional settings, and health care professionals in nephrology clinical settings, the 2022 edition of the Contemporary Nephrology Nursing textbook includes 60 chapters written by 93 expert authors. This edition includes an update of all current chapters with evidence-based data and the addition of 10 completely new chapters, covering the full breadth of nephrology nursing practice.



David Fortin - Le cerveau, une galaxie dans votre tête artwork Le cerveau, une galaxie dans votre tête
Tout ce que nous savons sur le cerveau simplifié et vulgarisé
David Fortin
Genre: Anatomy & Physiology
Price: $24.99
Publish Date: April 13, 2022
Publisher: Presses de l'Université du Québec
Seller: De Marque, Inc.

L’humain est souvent à la recherche de mystère et de fascination. Eh bien, nul besoin de s’aventurer bien loin. Il suffit de diriger son attention vers la boite crânienne qui abrite l’un des plus grands mystères de tous les temps : le cerveau humain. On dit qu’il y aurait autant de connexions neuronales dans le cerveau que d’étoiles dans notre galaxie. Il n’est donc pas étonnant que son fonctionnement et sa structure demeurent en partie occultes. Néanmoins, les avancées en la matière se sont accélérées grâce aux nouvelles technologies en imagerie cérébrale et en physiologie. Notre conception de l’organe cérébral a beaucoup évolué au cours de l’histoire, surtout depuis une vingtaine d’années. Le présent ouvrage offre un condensé vulgarisé des plus récentes connaissances sur le sujet. Proposant d’abord un court historique des neurosciences, ce livre explore ensuite les différents aspects de l’anatomie et du fonctionnement du cerveau ainsi que l’intégration des fonctions cognitives. Une fois les connaissances sur le cerveau mises à jour, on aborde les maladies pouvant l’affecter. En dernière partie, l’ouvrage prend la forme d’un essai plus philosophique sur la nature de la conscience, les promesses de l’intelligence artificielle et l’influence des nouvelles technologies sur le cerveau. Ce livre s’adresse à tous les curieux qui cherchent à mieux comprendre le cerveau, sa structure et son fonctionnement.