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The article reviews the book "Scientific Writing and Communication Papers, Proposals, and Presentations," by Angelika H. Hofmann.

Reviews the book "Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces," by Carolyn Snyder.

Reviews the book 'The Peopleware Papers: Notes on the Human Side of Software,' by Larry L. Constantine.

Reviews the book 'Web-Based Training,' edited by Badrul Khan.

The article reviews the book "Strategies for Business and Technical Writing," 5th edition, edited by Kevin J. Harty.

The article reviews the book "Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives," edited by Kirk St. Amant and Brian Still.

The article reviews the book "Study Skills: A Student Survival Guide," by Kathryn L. Allen.

Reviews the book 'Interface Design & Document Design,' edited by Piet Westendorp, Carel Jansen and Rob Punselie.

This book is a compendium of papers edited by Ahmed S. Khan, an educator and researcher at DeVry University in Addison, IL, U.S.A. DeVry University, whose presence now is mainly but not exclusively online, is a descendant of the former DeVry Technical Institute. The same kinds of technology that enable us to put billions of transistors on a single chip have led to the ability to make increasingly complex nanostructures for a wide variety of other uses, ranging from electronics to chemistry and medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This book gives engineering educators a useful global perspective on the state of ethics education in their discipline. The principle strength of the book is the geographical diversity of the 17 contributors to this volume. Not only is India represented, but so is the U.S., U.K, Holland, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Malaysia, and Sudan. Obviously, Europe and Asia have a strong presence and there are multiple entries from the U.S., but there is alas nothing from South America or Australia. The book consists of a series of short essays by, for the most part, professors whose job it is to teach professional ethics to engineering students. Strange to say there is no one here from industry describing what ethical practices he/she might require in a newly hired engineer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'Understanding Writing Blocks,' by Keith Hjortshoj.

Reviews the book 'Text Databases and Document Management: Theory and Practice,' by Amita Goyal Chin.

Reviews the book 'Readings in Multimedia Computing and Networking,' edited by Kevin Jeffay and HongJiang Zhang.

Reviews the book 'Cosmic Inventor,' by Reginald Aubrey Fessenden.

The book explores the relationship between appearance, conveyed through images and experiences, in contact with real things. For the purposes of analysis, the author discusses warfare and technology using the Civil War battle between the Union "Monitor" and Confederate "Merrimack" to emphasize and contrast issues of representation and reality. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the book "Origins and Successors of the Compact Disc: Contributions of Philips to Optical Storage," by Hans Peek, Jan Bergmans, Jos van Haaren, Frank Toolenaar and Sorin Stan.

The article reviews the book "Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews, Marshall McLuhan," edited by Stephanie McLuhan and David Staines.

Reviews the book "Discourse & Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis," edited by Philip LeVine and Ron Scollon.

Reviews the book "Social Thinking--Software Practice," edited by Yvonne Dittrich, Christiane Floyd and Ralf Klischewski.

Reviews the book 'Interacting With Audiences: Social Influences on the Production of Scientific Writing,' by Ann M. Blakeslee.

Reviews the book 'Revising Prose,' Fourth Edition, by Richard Lanham.

The article reviews the book "Thinking about Android Epistemology," edited by Kenneth M. Ford, Clark Glymour, and Patrick J. Hayes.

Reviews the book "Wiley Survival Guide in Global Communications," by E. Desurvire.

Reviews the book "Providing Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Environments Proceedings of the 18th International Teletraffic Congress," edited by J. Charzinski and R. Lehnert and P. Tran-Gia Elsevier.

The following books are reviewed: Commercial Data Mining: Processing, Analysis and Modeling for Predictive Analytics Projects (Nettleton, D.; 2014); Machine-to-Machine Communications: Architectures, Technology, Standards, and Applications (Misic, V.B.; 2014). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This is an important and provocative book that effectively describes some major concerns of our era. Her target is electronic communications media that emerged in our time ? most notably the smartphone and handheld mobile devices like the iPad. Lest you think that the telephone?s ability to shape history and civilization are nothing compared to our newest communications gadets. The author believes in the power of conversation and see the new forms of electronic communication as eroding ways in which people communicate with one another. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There is a whole spectrum of books on Polaroid. One is the biography of its American-born founder Edwin Land (1909-1991). Land was a distinguished inventor even before he produced his famous camera — the first of the “instant” cameras. He was well known for inventing polarizing filters that form the basis of polarized sunglasses. The Polaroid Corporation existed before the camera. Not only a great inventor, with over 500 patents in his lifetime, he was a wonderful showman who had a flair for introducing his latest cameras at shareholders’ meetings. Other books focus on the technology of the camera as well as its influence on legal matters, patents, business, and technological developments. This book, The Camera Does the Rest, focuses on the social meaning of the Polaroid camera and explores how it changed the field of photography. The focus is on the social meaning of the Polaroid camera - how did it change photography and how are cameras being used from a social perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Computer Networks and Internets," Fifth Edition, by Douglas Comer.

The article reviews the book "Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity Before Edison," by Michael Brian Schiffer.

The article reviews the book "Ambient Networks: Co-Operative Mobile Networking for the Wireless World," edited by N. Niebert, A. Schieder, and J. Zander.

The article reviews the book "The Professional Communications Toolkit," by D. Joe Whalen.

The article reviews the book "Portfolios for Technical and Professional Communicators," by Herb J. Smith and Kim Haimes-Korn.

The article reviews the book " Supervisory Control of Concurrent Systems: A Petri Net Structural Approach," by Marian V. Iordache and Panos J. Antsaklis.

The article reviews the book "Discrete-Time Markov Chains," by G. George Yin and Qing Zhang.

The article reviews the book "Genre Across the Curriculum," by Anne Herrington and Charles Moran.

The article reviews the book "Cryptography in the Database: The Last Line of Defense," by Kevin Kenan.

Reviews the book "Mobile Applications: Architecture, Design, and Development," by V. Lee, H. Schneider, and R. Schell.

Reviews the book "Communicating Science: The Scientific Article From the 17th Century to the Present," by Alan G. Gross, Joseph E. Harmon, and Michael Reidy.

Reviews the book "Unix Network Programming," vol.1, "The Sockets Networking API 3/E," by W. Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner and Andrew M. Rudoff.

Reviews the book 'Technical Marketing Communication,' by Sandra W. Harner and Tom G. Zimmerman.

Reviews the book 'Optical Packet Access Protocols for WDM Networks,' by Kemal Bengi.