1 - Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card - 1985 2 - Dune - Frank Herbert - 1965 3- Foundation - Isaac Asimov - 1951 4 - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - 1979 5 - 1984 - George Orwell - 1949 6 - Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein - 1961 7 - Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - 1954 8 - 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C Clarke - 1968 9 - Starship Troopers - Robert A Heinlein - 1959 10 - I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - 1950 11 - Neuromancer - William Gibson - 1984 12 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick - 1968 13 - Ringworld - Larry Niven - 1970 14 - Rendezvous With Rama - Arthur C Clarke - 1973 15 - Hyperion - Dan Simmons - 1989 16 - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - 1932 17 - The Time Machine - H G Wells - 1895 18 - Childhood's End - Arthur C Clarke - 1954 19 - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A Heinlein - 1966 20 - The War of the Worlds - H G Wells - 1898 21 - The Forever War - Joe Haldeman - 1974 22 - The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury - 1950 23 - Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut - 1969 24 - Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson - 1992 25 - The Mote in God's Eye - Niven & Pournelle - 1975
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Top Sci-fi
Friday, December 13, 2013
PDF to Text with OCR Ubuntu
$sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
$sudo apt-get install convert
$ convert -density 300 in.pdf out.png
$ tesseract out.png out
$ vi out.txt
For multiple files
for i in out-*.png ; do tesseract $i $i-txt; done
$sudo apt-get install convert
$ convert -density 300 in.pdf out.png
$ tesseract out.png out
$ vi out.txt
For multiple files
for i in out-*.png ; do tesseract $i $i-txt; done
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Friday, October 18, 2013
God In My Everything
God In My Everything
Ken Shigematsu shows that spiritual formation is more than just solitude and contemplative reflections. Spiritual formation happens in the everyday, in each and every moment of life. For those caught up in the busyness of work, family, and church, it often feels like time with God is just another thing on a crowded 'to-do' list. Ken explains how the time-tested spiritual practice of the 'rule of life' can help bring busy people into a closer relationship with God. He shows how a personal rule of life can fit almost any vocation or life situation. In God in My Everything, you will discover how to create and practice a life-giving, sustainable rhythm in the midst of your demanding life. If you long for a deeper spirituality but often feel that the busyness of life makes a close relationship with God challenging---and, at times, seemingly impossible---this book is for you
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17133254-god-in-my-everything
Ken Shigematsu shows that spiritual formation is more than just solitude and contemplative reflections. Spiritual formation happens in the everyday, in each and every moment of life. For those caught up in the busyness of work, family, and church, it often feels like time with God is just another thing on a crowded 'to-do' list. Ken explains how the time-tested spiritual practice of the 'rule of life' can help bring busy people into a closer relationship with God. He shows how a personal rule of life can fit almost any vocation or life situation. In God in My Everything, you will discover how to create and practice a life-giving, sustainable rhythm in the midst of your demanding life. If you long for a deeper spirituality but often feel that the busyness of life makes a close relationship with God challenging---and, at times, seemingly impossible---this book is for you
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17133254-god-in-my-everything
The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA is an autobiographical account of the discovery of the double helixstructure of DNA written by James D. Watson and published in 1968. It was and remains a controversial account.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Double_Helix
Rap video by 7 graders
http://www.genomeweb.com/node/1296296
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Double_Helix
Rap video by 7 graders
http://www.genomeweb.com/node/1296296
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Canadian author Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for literature
http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/canadian-author-alice-munro-wins-nobel-prize-for-literature-1.1491581
She is the first Canadian-born and raised writer, and the 13th woman to win the award.
Munro's bestselling collection of stories include "Dance of the Happy Shades," "Who Do You Think You Are?," "Friend of My Youth," "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage," "Too Much Happiness, and most recently "Dear Life."
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/canadian-author-alice-munro-wins-nobel-prize-for-literature-1.1491581#ixzz2hKvUxr6t
She is the first Canadian-born and raised writer, and the 13th woman to win the award.
Munro's bestselling collection of stories include "Dance of the Happy Shades," "Who Do You Think You Are?," "Friend of My Youth," "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage," "Too Much Happiness, and most recently "Dear Life."
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/canadian-author-alice-munro-wins-nobel-prize-for-literature-1.1491581#ixzz2hKvUxr6t
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Books
Still Alice - Lisa Genova
A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
The Lace Reader - Brunonia Barry
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
The Lace Reader - Brunonia Barry
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Wisdom about life
In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology.
In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.
--Oliver Sacks
Thursday, July 18, 2013
What's the world's greatest lie
“What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.”
-- Paulo Coelho "The Alchemist"
Friday, July 12, 2013
Linked - Albert-László Barabási
Linked,how everything is connected to everything else and what it means for business, science, and everyday life
Albert-László Barabási
Release Date: 2003-01-01
No. of Pages: 308
ISBN-10: 0452284392
ISBN-13: 9780452284395
Description:
A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, the nations foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us on an intellectual adventure to prove that social networks, corporations, and living organisms are more similar than previoulsy thought. Grasping a full understanding of network science, will someday allow us to design blue chip businesses, stop the outbreak of deadly diseases, and influence the exchange of ideas and information. Just as James Gleick brought the discovery of the Chaos theory to the general public, Linked tells the story of the true science of the future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert-L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Barab%C3%A1si
Best known for his work on network theory
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Data Analysis and Graphics in R
Data Analysis and Graphics in R
install.packages('DAAG')
library('DAAG')
http://www.amazon.ca/Data-Analysis-Graphics-Using-Example-Based/dp/0521762936
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/usingR.pdf
http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-books.html
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/
install.packages('DAAG')
library('DAAG')
http://www.amazon.ca/Data-Analysis-Graphics-Using-Example-Based/dp/0521762936
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/usingR.pdf
http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-books.html
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/
Friday, January 18, 2013
Whole Earth Catalog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_earth_catalog
The Whole Earth Catalog was an American counterculture catalog published by Stewart Brand between 1968 and 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998. Although the WECs listed all sorts of products for sale (clothing, books, tools, machines, seeds – things useful for a creative or self-sustainable lifestyle) the Whole Earth Catalogs themselves did not sell any of the products. Instead the vendors and their prices were listed right alongside with the items. This led to a need for the Catalogs to be frequently updated.
Steve Jobs compared The Whole Earth Catalog to Internet search engine Google in his June 2005 Stanford University commencement speech. "When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation.... It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along. It was idealistic and overflowing with neat tools and great notions." During the commencement speech, Jobs also quoted the farewell message placed on the back cover of the 1974 edition of the catalog: "Stay hungry. Stay foolish."[5][6][7]
The Whole Earth Catalog was an American counterculture catalog published by Stewart Brand between 1968 and 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998. Although the WECs listed all sorts of products for sale (clothing, books, tools, machines, seeds – things useful for a creative or self-sustainable lifestyle) the Whole Earth Catalogs themselves did not sell any of the products. Instead the vendors and their prices were listed right alongside with the items. This led to a need for the Catalogs to be frequently updated.
- Function
- Useful as a tool,
- Relevant to independent education,
- High quality or low cost,
- Not already common knowledge,
- Easily available by mail.
Steve Jobs compared The Whole Earth Catalog to Internet search engine Google in his June 2005 Stanford University commencement speech. "When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation.... It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along. It was idealistic and overflowing with neat tools and great notions." During the commencement speech, Jobs also quoted the farewell message placed on the back cover of the 1974 edition of the catalog: "Stay hungry. Stay foolish."[5][6][7]
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Science books
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v488/n7413/full/488587a.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20120830
Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the 'God Particle'
1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica
The Stardust Revolution: The New Story of Our Origin in the Stars
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson
Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family
Monday, July 9, 2012
103 Hikes in Southwestern British Columbia
by Jack Bryceland and Mary and David Macaree
Garibaldi p19
Diez Vistas Trail
Lindsay Lake
Elk-Thurston p64
Hanes Valley p41
Mount Gardner
Mount Seymour
Lynn Canyon to Grouse
http://www.vancouvertrails.com/trails/baden-powell-lynn-canyon-to-grouse/
BCMC trail / Grouse
http://www.amazon.com/103-Hikes-Southwestern-British-Columbia/dp/1550547755
Garibaldi p19
Diez Vistas Trail
Lindsay Lake
Elk-Thurston p64
Hanes Valley p41
Mount Gardner
Mount Seymour
Lynn Canyon to Grouse
http://www.vancouvertrails.com/trails/baden-powell-lynn-canyon-to-grouse/
BCMC trail / Grouse
http://www.amazon.com/103-Hikes-Southwestern-British-Columbia/dp/1550547755
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Neuroscience Science of the Brain
http://neuroscience.utoronto.ca/Assets/UTNP+Digital+Assets/brainbee/Neuroscience-Science-of-the-Brain.pdf
Neuroscience: Science of the Brain is a booklet for older children and the general public. It aims to describe our current understanding of brain function. Each of the twenty chapters focuses on a different aspect of the brain and is written by leading neuroscientists in that field. It is available in over twenty languages.
Published by International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Brain_Research_Organization
Neuroscience: Science of the Brain is a booklet for older children and the general public. It aims to describe our current understanding of brain function. Each of the twenty chapters focuses on a different aspect of the brain and is written by leading neuroscientists in that field. It is available in over twenty languages.
Published by International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Brain_Research_Organization
Monday, March 19, 2012
Cooking books
Tropp's Modern Art
Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table
The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook
Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table
The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook
Sunday, October 30, 2011
e-Books should be free
http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/
Free Audio Books from the public domain
Download a free audiobook in mp3, iPod, or iTunes format
Free Audio Books from the public domain
Download a free audiobook in mp3, iPod, or iTunes format
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