blogs & reviews tagged with books
This is a fantastic short course that is packed to the rafters with great information about how to build up website traffic using the power of social marketing. If you haven't managed to gain thousands of followers on twitter, or, if you just can't seem to generate enough interest in your blog or website, then this is the course for you.
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What's special about this book is not the science contained therein, although Bryson does a great job of including the most fascinating topics you can find, it's the way he writes about it that makes this such an enjoyable book. The prose transforms you into a curious child and you spend hours and hours caught up in the wonder and splendour of...
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I'm slightly bias because I love science so a book like this would naturally appeal to me. What's great about it is the fact that it really does do a good job of placing the theories within their contexts and talk about who had a role in fighting or promoting the ideas and how things were eventually resolved. This, at least for me, lends the...
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It's hard to know which adjective to use to describe this book. There are many. I'm going to go with 'bizarre'; but in a good way. The writing is infectious and immerses you completely in not only the book, but the character as well.
Everything that happens is seen from the point of view of Pi, a young Indian boy, who is shipwrecked and...
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This is an odd way to start out a review, but hear me out. I was sitting in a dingy little pub in Oxford when I noticed a plaque on a nearby bench. Enquiring about it, I was informed that this was the table at which C.S. Lewis and Tolkien would sit together and have drinks. On one particular night they took a bet to see who could write the best...
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This book is one of the most evocative and powerful I have ever read. Having been brought up in the South African schooling system (admittedly much later on), there are definite tinges of similarity between what Peekay went through and my own experiences - South African boarding schools used to be tough places.
The author touches on any...
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I'm not going to rattle off a long story about plot and characters and who's who and whether the creatures involved in the story come from Norse or Celtic mythology (or both, and then some). What I want to say about this book is this:
I read it when I was child. I have never forgotten it. I still have chills thinking about the...
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This book is a great overview of Drupal 7. It discusses every aspect of building a website and how Drupal 7 is designed to meet the requirements of virtually any type of site in an easy-to-understand manner; perfect for beginners.
Everything you need to build your website (regardless of whether it's a blog or a full-featured eCommerce...
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