Andrew's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:35:39 -0800 60 Andrew's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[How To Win Friends and Influence People]]> 9280841 260 Dale Carnegie Andrew 5 4.14 1936 How To Win Friends and Influence People
author: Dale Carnegie
name: Andrew
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1936
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[State of War (Tom Clancy's Net Force, #7)]]> 8468789 384 Steve Perry 1101001143 Andrew 5 4.22 2003 State of War (Tom Clancy's Net Force, #7)
author: Steve Perry
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average rating: 4.22
book published: 2003
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything]]> 37875 A new product, a new service, a new company, a new division, a new organization, a new anything—where there’s a will, here’s the way. It begins with a dream that just won’t quit, the once-in-a-lifetime thunderbolt of pure inspiration, the obsession, the world-beater, the killer app, the next big thing. Everyone who wants to make the world a better place becomes possessed by a grand idea.
But what does it take to turn your idea into action?  Whether you are an entrepreneur, intrapreneur, or not-for-profit crusader, there’s no shortage of advice available on issues such as writing a business plan, recruiting, raising capital, and branding. In fact, there are so many books, articles, and Web sites that many startups get bogged down to the point of paralysis. Or else they focus on the wrong priorities and go broke before they discover their mistakes. In The Art of the Start, Guy Kawasaki brings two decades of experience as one of business’s most original and irreverent strategists to offer the essential guide for anyone starting anything, from a multinational corporation to a church group. At Apple in the 1980s, he helped lead one of the great companies of the century, turning ordinary consumers into evangelists. As founder and CEO of Garage Technology Ventures, a venture capital firm, he has field-tested his ideas with dozens of newly hatched companies. And as the author of bestselling business books and articles, he has advised thousands of people who are making their startup dreams real. From raising money to hiring the right people, from defining your positioning to creating a brand, from creating buzz to buzzing the competition, from managing a board to fostering a community, this book will guide you through an adventure that’s more art than science—the art of the start.
]]> 226 Guy Kawasaki 1591840562 Andrew 5 3.89 2004 The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
author: Guy Kawasaki
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average rating: 3.89
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)]]> 19691 Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision. The Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. And the most incredible chase in history is on...

]]> 432 Tom Clancy 0425172902 Andrew 5 4.11 1984 The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
author: Tom Clancy
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average rating: 4.11
book published: 1984
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sum of All Fears (Jack Ryan, #6)]]> 34993 But too many groups have invested too much blood. Shunned by their erstwhile Soviet sponsors, increasingly isolated by the realignment of the Mideast, these terrorists have one more desperate card to play, requiring a degree of ruthlessness never before seen. With one terrible act, the world is plunged into an instant nuclear crisis -- and the floundering President is plunged into the ultimate nightmare. Forces collide. Shots are exchanged. What had seemed to be an isolated and horrible incident appears to each side as the incendiary mischief of the other. With the world poised on the brink of nuclear war, Ryan and his FBI counterpart, Dan Murray, frantically seek a solution before the chiefs of state lose control of themselves -- and the world.

]]> 914 Tom Clancy 0425184226 Andrew 5 4.07 1991 The Sum of All Fears (Jack Ryan, #6)
author: Tom Clancy
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average rating: 4.07
book published: 1991
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Rainbow Six (John Clark, #2; Jack Ryan Universe, #10)]]> 5720 Tom Clancy’s “genius for big, compelling plots� and his “natural narrative gift� (The New York Times Magazine) have mesmerized hundreds of millions of readers and established him as one of the preeminent storytellers of our time. Rainbow Six, however, goes beyond anything he has done before.

At its heart is John Clark, the ex-Navy SEAL of Without Remorse, well known from several of Clancy's novels as a master of secret operational missions. Whether hunting warlords in Japan, druglords in Colombia, or nuclear terrorists in the United States, Clark is efficient and deadly, but even he has ghosts in his past, demons that must be exorcised. And nothing is more demonic than the peril he must face in Rainbow Six.

Newly named the head of an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism, Clark is looking forward to getting his teeth into a new mission, but the opportunities start coming thicker and faster than anyone could have expected: an incident at a Swiss bank, the kidnapping of an international trader in Germany, a terrible raid on an amusement park in Spain.

Each episode seems separate, discrete, yet the timing disturbs Clark. Is there a connection? Is he being tested? With the help of his close associates, executive officer Alistair Stanley and strike team leaders Domingo Chavez and Peter Covington, Clark tries to figure out where all this activity is heading, but there is no way to predict the real threat: a group of terrorists like none the world has ever encountered, a band of men and women so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life on Earth as we know it.

]]> 912 Tom Clancy 0425170349 Andrew 5 4.12 1998 Rainbow Six (John Clark, #2; Jack Ryan Universe, #10)
author: Tom Clancy
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average rating: 4.12
book published: 1998
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Net Force (Tom Clancy's Net Force, #1)]]> 957376 In the year 2011, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them, control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: Net Force.

When the director of Net Force is assassinated, Deputy Director Alex Michaels is thrust into one of the most powerful and dangerous positions in the world. At the same time, cyber-terrorists sabotage mainframe computers across the country, causing famine, chaos, and death.

Now Michaels and his team must find out who is responsible—and what they have to gain. But there is another problem. If they assassinated one Net Force director, what will stop them from assassinating another?

A powerful examination of America's defense and intelligence systems of the future, Tom Clancy's Net Force is the creation of Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, inspiring this novel as well as the explosive ABC Television miniseries.]]> 372 Steve Perry 0425161722 Andrew 5 3.55 1998 Net Force (Tom Clancy's Net Force, #1)
author: Steve Perry
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average rating: 3.55
book published: 1998
rating: 5
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]]> Expert PHP and MySQL 7767081 587 Andrew Curioso 0470563125 Andrew 0 professional-technical 3.76 2010 Expert PHP and MySQL
author: Andrew Curioso
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average rating: 3.76
book published: 2010
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]]> To Kill a Mockingbird 2657 "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

"To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film.]]> 323 Harper Lee 0060935464 Andrew 0 4.25 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
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average rating: 4.25
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]]> Prey 83763
It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour.

Every attempt to destroy it has failed.

And we are the prey.]]> 507 Michael Crichton 0061015725 Andrew 5 3.79 2002 Prey
author: Michael Crichton
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average rating: 3.79
book published: 2002
rating: 5
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This is my absolute favorite Crichton book. Full of the high-tech content and suspense that makes me such a fan of his work.
]]> Disclosure 7675
What follow next made Disclosure the most talked about novel of the decade.]]> 464 Michael Crichton 0099303744 Andrew 4 3.80 1994 Disclosure
author: Michael Crichton
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average rating: 3.80
book published: 1994
rating: 4
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]]> Rising Sun 7668 399 Michael Crichton 0606298231 Andrew 5 3.66 1992 Rising Sun
author: Michael Crichton
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average rating: 3.66
book published: 1992
rating: 5
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]]> Next 7661 Fast, furious, and out of control.

This is not the world of the future --- it's the world right now.

Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why an adult human being resembles a chimp fetus? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction --- is it worse than the disease?

We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps; a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars; test our spouses for genetic maladies and even frame someone for a genetic crime.

We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes ...

Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions, and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect.

The future is closer than you think. Get used to it.

]]> 431 Michael Crichton 0060872985 Andrew 4 3.54 2006 Next
author: Michael Crichton
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average rating: 3.54
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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]]> State of Fear 15860 672 Michael Crichton Andrew 5 3.70 2004 State of Fear
author: Michael Crichton
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average rating: 3.70
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lost World (Jurassic Park, #2)]]> 8650
There are rumors that something has survived....]]> 448 Michael Crichton 0752224417 Andrew 3 3.85 1995 The Lost World (Jurassic Park, #2)
author: Michael Crichton
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average rating: 3.85
book published: 1995
rating: 3
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]]> Sphere 455373 371 Michael Crichton Andrew 5 3.83 1987 Sphere
author: Michael Crichton
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average rating: 3.83
book published: 1987
rating: 5
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]]> Congo 7672
Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies � all motionless except for one moving image � a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.

In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 “signs,� the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to fingerpaint. But recently, her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition � along with Amy � is sent into the Congo where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death �
source: michaelcrichton.com]]> 442 Michael Crichton 0060541830 Andrew 4 3.63 1980 Congo
author: Michael Crichton
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average rating: 3.63
book published: 1980
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)]]> 7677
Parque jurásico, la novela más célebre de Michael Crichton y una de las más leídas en los últimos años, fue adaptada al cine por Steven Spielberg en una película que se convirtió en el gran acontecimiento cinematográfico de 1993 y en el origen del fenómeno de masas llamado «dinomanía».]]> 467 Michael Crichton 030734813X Andrew 4 3.90 1990 Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
author: Michael Crichton
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average rating: 3.90
book published: 1990
rating: 4
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]]> Timeline 7669 489 Michael Crichton 0099244721 Andrew 5 3.87 1999 Timeline
author: Michael Crichton
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average rating: 3.87
book published: 1999
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Probably one of Crichton's best works and I've read them all. I may be biased though because I do have a fascination with the medieval time period.
]]> <![CDATA[Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life]]> 198863 111 Richard Branson 0753510995 Andrew 2 3.89 2007 Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life
author: Richard Branson
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average rating: 3.89
book published: 2007
rating: 2
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I expected depth and insight. I did not find what I was looking for in this book.
]]> <![CDATA[Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0]]> 2288436 The captivating story of the mavericks who emerged from the dotcom rubble to found the multibillion-dollar companies taking the Web into the twenty-first century

Everyone has heard the story of the Internet Bubble. Beginning with Netscape’s IPO in 1996, billions flowed into Internet startups, and companies with no revenues and shaky business plans earned sky-high valuations on Wall Street. It was the era of paper millionaires, $800 office chairs, and Super Bowl ads for dotcoms. Then in 2000 the Bubble burst, with the NASDAQ losing 75 percent of its value and hundreds of companies closing up shop. It was all written off to “irrational exuberance,� and everyone moved on.

Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good is the story of the entrepreneurs who learned their lesson from the bust and in recent years have created groundbreaking new Web companies. The second iteration of the dotcoms—dubbed Web 2.0—is all about bringing people together. Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace unite friends online; YouTube lets anyone posts videos for the world to see; Digg.com allows Internet users to vote on the most relevant news of the day; Six Apart sells software that enables bloggers to post their viewpoints online; and Slide helps people customize their virtual selves.

Business reporter Sarah Lacy brings to light the entire Web 2.0 scene: the wide-eyed but wary entrepreneurs, the hated venture capitalists, the bloggers fueling the hype, the programmers coding through the night, the twenty-something millionaires, and the Internet “fan boys� eager for all the promises to come true.]]> 304 Sarah Lacy 1592403824 Andrew 4 3.86 2008 Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0
author: Sarah Lacy
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average rating: 3.86
book published: 2008
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]]> Rework 6732019
Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the competition. The truth is, you need less than you think. You don't need to be a workaholic. You don't need to staff up. You don't need to waste time on paperwork or meetings. You don't even need an office. Those are all just excuses. 

What you really need to do is stop talking and start working. This book shows you the way. You'll learn how to be more productive, how to get exposure without breaking the bank, and tons more counterintuitive ideas that will inspire and provoke you.

With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who’s ever dreamed of doing it on their own. Hardcore entrepreneurs, small-business owners, people stuck in day jobs they hate, victims of "downsizing," and artists who don’t want to starve anymore will all find valuable guidance in these pages.]]> 279 Jason Fried 0307463745 Andrew 5 3.97 2010 Rework
author: Jason Fried
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average rating: 3.97
book published: 2010
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]]> <![CDATA[Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion]]> 6474550 142 Gary Vaynerchuk 0061914177 Andrew 5 3.87 2001 Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion
author: Gary Vaynerchuk
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average rating: 3.87
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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