What Books are on my Office Bookshelf?
Here’s an interesting question and I’m sure its going to rivet everybody to their office chairs… what books are on my office bookshelf? Only the candid reporting of actual facts will be enough to assuage the curiosity of other information addicts. Just remember, information addiction is not a crime – its an illness. Treat us nicely.
Text Books – Management
- Fundamentals of Management (Pacific Rim Edition) by Danny Samson and Richard L. Daft
- International Business: Managing in the Asia-Pacific (3rd Edition) by Greg Fisher et. al.
- Strategic Management: Competitiveness & Globalisation (Asia Pacific Third Edition) by Hanson et. al.
- Cold Steel: Lakshmi Mittal and the Multi-Billion-Dollar Battle for a Global Empire by Tim Bouquet and Byron Ousey
- Managers and the Law: A Guide for Business Decision Makers by Lynden Griggs, Eugene Clark and Ian Iredale
- Essential Foundations of Economics (4th Edition) by Robin Bade and Michael Parkin
- Accounting 4: An Introduction by Atrill et. al.
- Principles of Managerial Finance by Gitman, Juchau and Flanagan
- Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim (2nd Edition) by Steven McShane and Tony Travaglione
- Organisational Behaviour (5th Edition) by Robbins et. al.
- Marketing Principles & Best Practices 3e (International Student Edition) by Hoffman et. al.
- Internet Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice by Dave Chaffey et. al.
- Human Resource Management: Strategies and Processes (5th Edition) by Alan Nankervis, Robert Compton and Marian Baird
- Writing for Journalists (2nd Edition) by Wynford Hicks et. al.
- Editing Made Easy by Bruce Kaplan
Text Books – Computing
- Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving by George F. Fluger
- Operating System Concepts (7th Edition) by Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne
- Your UNIX: The Ultimate Guide (2nd Edition) by Sumitabha Das
- Data Communications and Networking (4th Edition) by Behrouz A. Forouzan
- PHP and MySQL Web Development (2nd Edition) by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson
- Java Software Solutions: Foundations of Program Design (3rd Edition) by Lewis & Loftus
- Data Abstraction and Problem Solving with JAVA: Walls and Mirrors (International Edition) by Frank M. Carrano and Janet J. Prichard
- Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C (2nd Edition) by Mark Allen Weiss
- Object-Oriented Software Engineering: Using UML, Patterns and Java (2nd Edition) by Bernd Bruegge and Allen H. Dutoit
- The C Programming Language (2nd Edition) by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
- Computer Confluence: Exploring Tomorrow’s Technology (IT Edition) by George Beekman and Eugene J. Rathswohl
Text Books – Not Mine (But Read)
- Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm (International Edition) by Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon
- Electronic Commerce: A Managerial Perspective 2006 by Efraim Turban et. al.
Non-Fiction Purchases (Web Development)
- Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman
- The Zen of CSS Design by Dave Shea and Molly E. Holzschlag
- Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design by Andy Clarke
- Bulletproof Ajax by Jeremy Keith
- DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model by Jeremy Keith
- DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript and DOM by Stuart Langridge
- The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks by Davey Shafik et. al.
- Core MySQL: The Serious Developer’s Guide by Leon Atkinson
Non-Fiction Purchases (Other)
- Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design by Bill Buxton
- Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations by Clay Shirky
- Monkeyluv: And Other Stories on our Lives as Animals by Robert M. Sapolsky
- Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff by Fred Pearce
- What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew J. Bacevich
- The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by David Kilcullen
- No Standing Only Dancing: Photographs by Rennie Ellis, National Gallery of Victoria
- Impossible Nature: The Art of Jon McCormack by Jon McCormack et. al.
- The Fabulist: The Incredible Story of Louis De Rougemont by Rod Howard
Electronic
- Blue Planet Run: The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World by Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt
- The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle
- Remix by Lawrence Lessig
- The Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig
- Code: version 2.0 by Lawrence Lessig
- Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks by Luke Wroblewski
- Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behaviour by Indi Young
- Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications by Patrick Lenz
- The Art and Science of CSS by Cameron Adams et. al.
- The Principles of Successful Freelancing by Miles Burke
- How to Make a Book by the Blurberati
- Street Photography for the Purist by Chris Weeks
- The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks and Techniques by Corrie Haffly
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin
- The Dip by Seth Godin
- 99 Cows by Seth Godin
- Bootstrapper’s Bible by Seth Godin
- Unleashing the Idea Virus by Seth Godin
Fiction
- The Collectors by David Baldacci
- Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
- A Most Wanted Man by John LeCarre
- All the Colours of Darkness by Peter Robinson
- Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy
- The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
- Velocity by Dean Koontz
- The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz



March 2nd, 2010 at 8:45 pm
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