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Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry

15 reviews
Travis Bradford

The MIT Press, 2006

A comprehensive view of an off-the-grid future
Travis Bradford is the president and founder of a nonprofit organization that promotes the use of renewable energy. He is convinced of the necessity of solar energy and he wants to persuade you, too. He considers the various ways society currently produces power and the new technologies now underway, and makes the most generous assumptions in trends, advances and breakthroughs in favor of solar ...

Financial Modeling, 3rd Edition

7 reviews
Simon Benninga

The MIT Press, 2008

Quick Tip
Rather then comment extensively on the content of the book (as others have done rather well), I felt like I would pass this tip (which I wish I had known to prevent frustration). I feel that anyone without a working knowledge of Visual Basic, and manuevering around Excel should obtain the skill set with the well written technical sections. I would suggest starting with part VI introduction to ...

101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

11 reviews
Matthew Frederick

The MIT Press, 2007

Good guide to Architecture Students
The book contains 101 ideas and concepts that are explained through text on one page and a simple -pen and ink- sketch on the opposite page. The concepts discussed vary widely from simple drawing techniques to positions of architectural theory through enlightened ideas of form and space composition. The book is a good use for students specially in 1st and 2nd years. And could work as a good ...

Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight

2 reviews
David A. Mindell

MIT Press, 2008

Computers in Space
While this book dwells more on computers than astronauts, it contains details from the actual moon landings that I've never seen published elsewhere. Despite contrary opinions by the astonauts, this book has convinced me that a 100% all-human landing (without computers) was not technically possible. If you liked "Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer" then you'll like ...

The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

65 reviews
William Easterly

The MIT Press, 2002

A Partial Answer to the Question of Why the World is the Way it is
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics by William Easterly is an honest answer to part of the question, "why hasn't the world improved like we thought it would?" Easterly conducts a post-mortem conference on western aid programs since the end of World War II, finding that in many cases we should have known better. The incentives created by some ...

The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

38 reviews
John Maeda

The MIT Press, 2006

Not just for designers
I had an opportunity to hear John Maeda speak recently. Here are a few things John said that I really like: "Humans want 'more' (food, storage, stuff). So 'more' is an important marketing concept. But while humans want more, design is about less. Yahoo design is about more. Google design is about less." I ordered "The Laws of Simplicity" even before his speech was done. It is a short book ...

Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions

25 reviews
Gary Klein

The MIT Press, 1999

Staple Fire Service Text
I have taught in a College Fire Science program for nearly eight years and have not found a resource I thought was more fitting to use as an incident commander text. Many Incident Command System (ICS) resources talk about strategies, tactics, resource allocation, and organizational structure but, do not teach the student how understand how these decisions are made in an emergency. Klein lays ...

Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture

2 reviews

The MIT Press, 2008

What a trip!
I just finished this one. If you're looking for insight from the myriad influential contributors, you'll find that and much more here. The book's themes run deep, weaving together music history and theory with meditations on technology, perception, and cultural zeitgeist. I went in curious how the ideas of Brian Eno, Bruce Sterling, Cory Doctorow, and Chuck D would cohere under the editorial hand ...

Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists

7 reviews
Casey Reas, Ben Fry

The MIT Press, 2007

Painless programming for the visual arts
This is a great book on that new Java-based language designed with the visual arts in mind - Processing. Tons of essays, examples, tutorials, and interviews are in the book to convey a proof of concept of the language as well as instruction on how to program with it. The writing style - for you Java programmers out there - reminds me of a cross between "Core Java" and "Head First Java". The book ...

Designing Interactions

14 reviews
Bill Moggridge

The MIT Press, 2007

Marcos Chilet .......Diseño de interacción.
En este libro se revisan una serie de autores que son relevantes en el campo del diseño de interacción. Podemos encontrar desde Brenda Laurel hablando del desarrollo de juegos para niñas, hasta los creadores de Google. No es un libro que profundice en los temas, es más bién un útil panóptico del desarrollo del diseño de interacción. Marcos Chilet Diseño, Pontificia Universidad catolica de ...

The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future

43 reviews
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Scott Burns

The MIT Press, 2005

Excellent, Thought-Provoking Book
This is an absolutely incredible book. Anyone who is interested in the future of our Social Security System and the Medicare and Medicaid systems must read this book. The authors provide good, documented evidence to explain what is broken in these vital systems. The authors explain why current politicians' plans for reform will not work and need to be revised. Most importantly the authors ...

The Image of the City

4 reviews
Kevin Lynch

The MIT Press, 1960

The psychology of urban designs
This book describes mental maps obtained from residents in several cities such as Boston, Los Angeles and Jersey City. The mental maps were materialized on paper through an interview process and combined with maps from many individuals. And the results are surprising. Each map is a composite image of the city (and hence, the book's title) that reveals not only the character of the place, ...

Participation (Documents of Contemporary Art)

1 review

The MIT Press, 2006

a must for all art afficiados
Until I read this book I could not give myself permission to have my own ideas about some of the world's greatest art pieces and give my educated opinion about them. Umberto Eco's 1st essay is a wonder!

The Economics of Microfinance

8 reviews
Beatriz Armendáriz, Jonathan Morduch

The MIT Press, 2005

Microfinance at its finest
Microfinance is one of the newest strategies for development and Princeton economist Morduch takes a look at how it impacts societies. While he only looks briefly at the social issues he makes several compelling economic arguments for why we should consider microfinance as a viable option. The book is very well written although I think it does leave out some of the long term structural and ...

Out of the Crisis

41 reviews
W. Edwards Deming

The MIT Press, 2000

Every business person MUST read this book.
As the title says, if you are a manager you MUST read this book. Read it even if you aren't a manager. Deming knows quality, bottom line.

Bicycling Science, 3rd Edition

24 reviews
David Gordon Wilson

The MIT Press, 2004

too much for me
I like science. I like bicycles. This book goes into much greater depth than most people will want. I couldn't even finish it. If you build bikes and/or are a physicist or engineer and like biking then you will probably enjoy it.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer ...

157 reviews
Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman

The MIT Press, 1996

Mind-changing
This is the best book on programming I have ever met in my life and, most probably, will ever meet. It not only surprised me and made me think "Oh my god, how come I didn't think this way/about these so incredibly important things before?" dozens of times in every single chapter during every of my 3(in a row) readings of it but it actually changed the way I think about programs and the way I ...

Riding the Waves: A Life in Sound, Science, and Industry
Leo Beranek

The MIT Press, 2008

Leo Beranek, an Iowa farm boy who became a Renaissance man--scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, musician, television executive, philanthropist, and author--has lived life in constant motion. His seventy-year career, through the most tumultuous and transformative years of the last century, has always been propelled by the sheer exhilaration of trying something new. In Riding the Waves, Leo Beranek tells his story. Beranek's life changed ...

Circuit Design with VHDL

23 reviews
Volnei A. Pedroni

The MIT Press, 2004

A jewel for the VHDL beginners
Author communicates his thoughts in very precise and concise language (I found only one minor typo). This book focuses on writing synthesizable code; that fact alone makes it a very practical reference for any engineer working with CPLD or FPGA. If one supplements this book with VHDL reference and Xilinx Web edition of ISE, it is possible to get started quickly; at least I did. Thanks Volnei.

Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data

13 reviews
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

The MIT Press, 2001

The missing link for cross section, panel data and program evaluation
This book fills a real gap for those who are interested in things like ATE, ATET and topics related to impact evaluation that are only talked about now in research papers. The explanations are very very clear and they walk you through the thinking process by which the different methods were developed. Of course, it has the traditional coverage of panel data and cross section but with the clarity ...

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