Book Reviews
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The Bomoh’s Apprentice
Tragically orphaned at the age of three, Kutu is adopted by the animist bomoh of Kampung Pokok Tertinggi in the wilds of Borneo. Over the course of the next thirteen years, the powerful sorcerer schools the boy in the supernatural arts, preparing him to take his place when he himself must leave [...]
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New Books for Aug 2010
Pembangunan Aplikasi Web Menggunakan ASP.Net
Persekitaran web menyediakan pelbagai teknologi serta komponen bagi tujuan pembangunan aplikasi ASP.Net. ASP.Net merupakan bahasa pengaturcaraan sebelah pelayan yang membolohkan pembangun laman web menghasilkan aplikasi web dan servis yang bersifat dinamik.
Buku ini juga menerangkan tentang teknologi web secara umum, penggunaan sistem pengurusan pangkalan data dalam aplikasi web [...]
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Under the Sun
From the author of Never Been Better and Free-Falling Man comes a new collection of flash fiction that brings to life a world of secrets, joy, grief and longing that lie beneath the ordinary and mundane. Under the Sun offers unflinching snapshots of everyday life, encapsulating the gritty and real, the subtle and extreme in [...]
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Clutch, Brake, Sellerator and Other Stories
From a shape-shifting tigress, a brave tribal warrior and a mother who will do anything to protect her child, to a young girl who observes and experiences a loss of innocence, a town with seemingly immortal inhabitants and a boy whose life changes forever after his driving lessons, this collection of stories from the winner [...]
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Key Performance Indicators (KPI): Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIs, 2nd Edition
An in-depth look at how to create and use key performance indicators (KPIs), from the King of KPIs – now updated and expanded!
By exploring measures that have transformed businesses, David Parmenter has developed a methodology that is breathtaking in its simplicity and yet profound in its impact. Now in an updated [...]
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Twitter Power 2.0: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time
The best guide to using Twitter to market to consumers-revised and better than everSince 2006, forward-thinking companies like Apple, JetBlue, Whole Food, and GM have discovered the instant benefits of leveraging social media site Twitter to reach consumers directly, build their brand, and increase their sales. Some companies have whole teams [...]
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UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging.
From one of the leading experts in viral and social marketing-market your business effectively to today’s customers
For generations, marketing has been hypocritical. We’ve been taught to market to others in ways we hate being marketed to (cold-calling, flyers, ads, etc.). So why do we still keep trying the same stale [...]
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Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead
Open Leadership is an essential guide for leaders who want to use social media to be “open” while maintaining control
“Be Open, Be Transparent, Be Authentic” are the current leadership mantras-but companies often push back. Business is premised on the concept of control and yet the new world order demands openness-leaders [...]
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Financially Stupid People Are Everywhere: Don’t Be One Of Them
A hard-hitting look at achieving financial freedom by avoiding excessive borrowing and spendingIf you don’t actively resist America’s culture of debt, you’ll end up precisely where the government, banks, and big business want you to be: indentured servitude. The mistakes people make with their money are basic, and avoidable, and unless you understand what they [...]
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The You Economy: How Digital Media Is Changing The Online Economy
In his provocative new masterpiece, Harry Seggu, reveals the disruption of old behaviours that are fast being replaced by new behaviours in this new world economy. He reveals the extreme invasion of privacy that caused a wife to be murdered after she changed her status on a social networking site from ‘married’ to ’single’ and [...]
