Not as much to read but to own: a writing style manual, like the MLA or Chicago.
If you're going to be an engineering major, it's also nice to have a mathematics handbook as reference. I personally use Rade & Westergren's Mathematics Handbook for Science and Engineering, 5th Ed, Springer-Verlag (ISBN: 3-540-21141-1).
And read some Feynmann stuff, like "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" or "What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
If you're going to be an engineering major, it's also nice to have a mathematics handbook as reference. I personally use Rade & Westergren's Mathematics Handbook for Science and Engineering, 5th Ed, Springer-Verlag (ISBN: 3-540-21141-1).
And read some Feynmann stuff, like "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" or "What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
- May 13, 2003
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Interesting thread. I'm starting college in the Fall, and I'm trying to find some damn penguin book I supposedly need for English, but I haven't been able to locate it or the ISBN for it yet.
Learn about how to stay organized and networking with people. This applies to everyone in every major.
I am into computer programming and the Internet and computer science.
I like two interesting books that I have and have read. Both are a little dated and both are interesting to read. I firmly like the concept, "You have to know where you came from to know where you are going." Both the books look at the concepts of computer and software development and then the realities of the business side of the industry, which are often at odds with each other.
Where Wizards Stay up Late
This is the history of the development of the Internet and what it took to build, who worked on it and how DARPA came to develop this thing that turned into the Internet, and WWW...., E-Mail and who knows what else. I like this book because it shows the Politics involved, the technological development, the Prorgrammers, and the companies that worked on it.
http://www.amazon.com/Where-Wi...-Up-Late/dp/0684832674
Another Book I like is:
Accidental Empires
This book is publishe by Harpers Busieness Press. It is all about the development of the modern PC. It stars Bill Gates, IBM, Intel, Gary Kilduff, and others who made and lost millions in the PC industry and the software industry. Some people actually made millions went out of business and bounced back from defeat. It sometimes jumps back in forth in time and rambles a bit but you get use to the writing style after a couple of chapters.
http://www.amazon.com/Accident..._4/103-7945175-9283832
I like two interesting books that I have and have read. Both are a little dated and both are interesting to read. I firmly like the concept, "You have to know where you came from to know where you are going." Both the books look at the concepts of computer and software development and then the realities of the business side of the industry, which are often at odds with each other.
Where Wizards Stay up Late
This is the history of the development of the Internet and what it took to build, who worked on it and how DARPA came to develop this thing that turned into the Internet, and WWW...., E-Mail and who knows what else. I like this book because it shows the Politics involved, the technological development, the Prorgrammers, and the companies that worked on it.
http://www.amazon.com/Where-Wi...-Up-Late/dp/0684832674
Another Book I like is:
Accidental Empires
This book is publishe by Harpers Busieness Press. It is all about the development of the modern PC. It stars Bill Gates, IBM, Intel, Gary Kilduff, and others who made and lost millions in the PC industry and the software industry. Some people actually made millions went out of business and bounced back from defeat. It sometimes jumps back in forth in time and rambles a bit but you get use to the writing style after a couple of chapters.
http://www.amazon.com/Accident..._4/103-7945175-9283832
Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
a very good and interesting book that spoke a lot to me. and just so you know, it is not a motocycle maintenance manual or anything of the sort.
a very good and interesting book that spoke a lot to me. and just so you know, it is not a motocycle maintenance manual or anything of the sort.
Anubis
No Lifer
One of the first I thought of...
also...
Everything Philip Dick has written, Lolita, and A People's History.
How We Know What Isn't So
Very few people take a critical thinking course, and i think it's one of the most important thing in life is to be able to think critically on issues.
Very few people take a critical thinking course, and i think it's one of the most important thing in life is to be able to think critically on issues.
Evolutionary Analysis, Freeman and Herron
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Greg Palast
Any decent college algebra textbook.
The plane only takes off if there is no clause in the question stipulating "No air flows over the lift generating parts of the plane" as there was in the phrasing that was posted hear a few years ago. This could be achieved with a treadmill and a tow cable.
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Greg Palast
Any decent college algebra textbook.
The plane only takes off if there is no clause in the question stipulating "No air flows over the lift generating parts of the plane" as there was in the phrasing that was posted hear a few years ago. This could be achieved with a treadmill and a tow cable.
Regardless of your major you could benefit from books on:
- Critical thinking
- Rhetoric
- Writing well
- Time management
A few of those are learned first-hand (critical thinking, time management), but why not get the benefit of what others have already learned so you don't have to waste time discovering them yourself. (Writing well is important for all majors, too.)
- Critical thinking
- Rhetoric
- Writing well
- Time management
A few of those are learned first-hand (critical thinking, time management), but why not get the benefit of what others have already learned so you don't have to waste time discovering them yourself. (Writing well is important for all majors, too.)
BrokenVisage
Lifer
- Jan 29, 2005
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Meh, I rented the movie for that one. Much like many of the other boring, mundane books my school made me "read".
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