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Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy 4 reviews
Ron Goldman, Richard P. Gabriel
Morgan Kaufmann, 2005
Guide to the Value Created by Free/Open Source Software
+ Open Source for dummies
+ online version
+ sometimes look outside your company
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The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, Twentieth Anniversary Edition 5 reviews
Sherry Turkle
The MIT Press, 2005
A bold academic foray into a new media
+ a worthy update
+ A little bit of an open door.
+ A classic - every researcher should have read!
+ Priceless Early Look at Hackers with "The Right Stuff"
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Open Society
George Soros
Little, Brown, 2000
The renowned financier reconsiders the state of the world economy, and the arguments he made in his New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller The Crisis of Global Capitalism.Lauded by the New York Times as "brilliant and persuasive," and published in more than thirty-five foreign editions, George Soros's The Crisis of Global Capitalism became an instant classic. A must read for anyone ...
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Open Society and Its Enemies (Volume 1)37 reviews
Karl Raimund Popper
Princeton University Press, 1971
Philosophy of History: Prove untruth, not truth
+ What kind of person attacks the openness of a society?
+ Open Society and Its Enemies
+ One of the Great Works on Classical Liberalism
+ Worth it for the discussion of Marxism
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Information Operations: Putting the "I" Back Into Dime1 review
Robert David Steele
Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War Co, 2006
Get This Free by Googling TItle, from Army War College
I am the author of this publication, and gave the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army an unlimited unrestricted copyright for their educational purposes alone.
I am both offended and injured by this sleaze of a publisher seeking to vacuum clean publications and offer then at grotesquely ...
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The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World That Works for All3 reviews
Tom Atlee, Rosa Zubizarreta
Writers' Collective, 2003
Utterly Sensational--Basic Book for Humanity
+ After the inspiration: How to create a future worth living
+ A thoughtful and philosophical work
Edit of 21 Dec 07 to add links and comment.
New comment: Tom Atlee opened a door for me, and because of him I have joined the co-intelligence movement and will be publishing an edited work, COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace, both free in PDF form at OSS.Net/CIB, and ...
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The new craft of intelligence: Achieving asymmetric advantage in the face of nontraditional threats (Studies ... 1 review
Robert David Steele
Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2002
Distillation of the Book, Tailored for Army Audience
This monograph is a distillation of my book, "The New Craft of Intelligence," but one tailored for the U.S. Army, which under the leadership of General Peter Schoomaker has gone full force into the future, creating 40+ brigades out of the 10+ divisions, creating stabilization & reconstruction ...
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International Finance and Open-Economy Macroeconomics1 review
Giancarlo Gandolfo
Springer, 2001
clearly written bridge between intermediate and graduate
I am a PhD economist who wanted a refresher course in the basic of international macro. This book is extremely well-written. There is some math (calculus is in appendixes), but only that which meshes well with the text. This is some, but not a great deal, of reference to materials from the last ...
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Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape8 reviews
Henry Chesbrough
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
Innovation requires an open mind...and the courage to challenge "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."
+ Well-written, concise, with specific examples
+ Open Business Models for Those Who Rely on Technology Innovation and Need Intellectual Property Protection
What is an open business model? In Chapter 1, here's Henry Chesbrough's response to that question: "A business model performs two important functions: it creates value and it captures a portion of that value. It creates value by defining a series of activities from raw materials through to the ...
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The Open Space of Democracy (New Patriotism)4 reviews
Terry Tempest Williams
The Orion Society, 2004
A Masterpiece
+ Words sorely needed
+ The Open Space of Democracy
+ DEEPLY ENGAGING
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution81 reviews
Steven Levy
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001
Couldn't put it down
+ The positive side of hacking
+ An amazing insight into the mind of a computer enthusiast
+ Oh, what might have been...
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Linux in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))37 reviews
Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, ...
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005
Still a very helpful, very valuable reference
+ Essential Linux Reference
+ A very big nutshell!
+ It's a Nutshell book. Duh.
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Creating an "Open Book" Organization: ...Where Employees Think & Act Like Business Partners
Thomas J. McCoy
AMACOM, 1996
The long touted "partnership" between management and staff is still an elusive goal for many companies. This book provides the first practical, step-by-step approach to actually achieving this kind of high-performace culture. Filled with original implemetation tools, the book outlines how to educate employees so they fully understand the business and their specific roles, empower them to act in ...
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Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical Real-World Approach (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series)9 reviews
Christopher Hallinan
Prentice Hall PTR, 2006
Excellent survey
+ A great book on the subject
+ Really heapful
+ Very good book to study embedded Linux
+ Embedded Linux Review
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The New Craft of Intelligence: Personal, Public, & Political--Citizen's Action Handbook for Fighting ...8 reviews
Robert David Steele
Oss Pr, 2002
Work at home as an intelligece analyst
+ Superb
+ The Peoples' Intelligence Agency
+ Review of The New Craft of Inteligence
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Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman3 reviews
Richard M. Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, ...
Free Software Foundation, 2002
Nice Explanations
+ CS Major Philosophy
+ Essential Reading for any Intelligent Adult Favoring Social Progress
The editor wrote a short forward explaining all the computer concepts the reader will need in order to understand the book. In addition, there are footnotes throughout the book explaining obscure people and computer terms. This way even a sociology major like myself can understand everything. ...
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The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered 30 reviews
George Soros
PublicAffairs, 1998
Economic theory has misrepresented how markets behave
+ The hobo Philosopher
+ "policeman to the world"... on second thought...
Reflexivity, is the two way interaction between thinking and reality. Reality is not separate from thinking. Reflexivity is acceptance that there is a reality and we are a part of that reality. Reflexity, strength of its statement is contingent on their impact.
Fallibility means there is a ...
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Information Operations: All Information, All Languages, All the Time1 review
Robert David Steele
OSS International Press, 2006
Information Please!
"Information Operations" is an important and original book on how to greatly improve the ability of the U.S. National Security Establishment to cope with the conditions of the 21st Century. Steele, who appears to be something of a maverick, provides nothing short of a brilliant analysis of the ...
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution81 reviews
Steven Levy
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001
Couldn't put it down
+ The positive side of hacking
+ An amazing insight into the mind of a computer enthusiast
+ Oh, what might have been...
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Linux in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))37 reviews
Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, ...
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005
Still a very helpful, very valuable reference
+ Essential Linux Reference
+ A very big nutshell!
+ It's a Nutshell book. Duh.
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