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InTech - Open Access Publisher

Established in 2004 by two Robotics researchers frustrated with the lack of freely available academic resources on the internet, InTech was one of the earliest pioneers of open access in the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. Since then InTech collaborated with more than 60 000 authors providing FREE access to 13 journals and 1700 books.

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Posted: 2012-4-29 12:21

James P Kelly's "Burn" short sf novel podcast concludes

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

by Cory Doctorow via Boing!Boing!:

The entirety of Burn, a wonderful short science fiction novel, is now available as an audiobook podcast.
Back in November, I blogged about Hugo-award-winning author James Patrick Kelly's podcasting of his new short novel Burn, one chapter per week, for sixteen weeks.
Burn is the story of Prosper Gregory Leung, a native of a techno-primitive utopian planet called Walden, a planet that was purchased by a wealthy industrialist who turned it into a primitivist state modeled on Thoreau's book, chasing off the Pukpuks, the original settlers whose industrial civilization had denuded the planet's native flora and fauna. The Waldeners sign onto a covenant to eschew most technology -- including all the amazing, life-extending, faster-than-light magic of the universe outside of Walden -- except for genetically modified fast-growing forests that they use to replant the world, remaking it into a verdant and tranquil paradise.
But the Pukpuks aren't all content to be driven away. Some of them take to the hills, and attack Walden's forests and towns with firebombs that create the Burn, an ongoing, raging fire-fight that licks at the world's vegetation.
Leung is a firefighter, a kind of paramilitary role in this world, who has lost his best friend in a Pukpuk attack, and who is recovering in a high-tech hospital where he experiments with a souped up galactic phone that puts him in touch with the High Gregory, a kind of reincarnated Dalai Llama, but weirder and less tranquil, who surprises Leung by showing up with his entourage of prepubescent incarnations of divine powers to "make luck for him."
Like all Jim Kelly stories, Burn wrenches at your heart even as it makes you laugh out loud. I learned everything I know about reading aloud from attending Jim Kelly's readings at science fiction conventions (and he says he learned all he knows from reading to his kids, who are apparently a discriminating audience) and listening to him read Burn is a positive delight. One of my weekly highlights for the past four-or-so-months has been the latest Burn installment, and Jim's wonderful, warm readings of his book. I can't recommend it enough, and now that it's completed, it's the perfect thing to load onto a CD or MP3 player for a long trip or a week's worth of bike rides or workouts at the gym. Podcast feed link

North American Confederacy: L. Neil Smith

From FreeTrav on Callahans

  • The Probability Broach
  • The Venus Belt
  • The Gallatin Divergence
  • Tom Paine Maru
  • The American Zone
  • The Nagasaki Vector
  • Their Majesties' Bucketeers

- 26 Sep 2005

Books from HP's Brand Innovation Lab

  • Bang! Getting Your Message Heard in a Noisy World, By Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval. Entertaining anecdotes and inspiring accounts of ad campaigns that have propelled revenues and market share.
  • Blue Ocean Strategy: Creating Uncontested Market Space that Makes the Competition Irrelevant, By W. Chan Kim and Ren Če? Mauborgne. Success comes from creating new markets rather than competing for a share of existing ones.
  • Democratizing Innovation, By Eric von Hippel. A close look at the emerging system of user-centered innovation.
  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, By Steven Leavitt, Economics, at the root, is a study of incentivesóhow people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.
  • Juice: The Creative Fuel that Drives World-Class Inventors, By Evan I. Schwartz. Inside the labs and the minds of today's most prolific inventors to demystify the process by which they imagine and create.
  • Orbiting the Giant Hairball A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace, By Gordon MacKenzie. Lessons on awakening and fostering creative genius.
  • The Art of Innovation, By Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman. Insights and tools for making companies the leading-edge, top-rated stars of their industries.
  • The Five Faces of Genius, By Annette Moser-Wellman. How to use creative thinking strategies to flourish in the workplace.
  • The Power of Cult Branding, By Matthew W. Ragas and Bolivar J. Bueno. How nine magnetic brands turned customers into loyal followers.
  • The Wisdom of Crowds, By James Surowiecki. How collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies and nations.
  • Unstuck: A Tool for Yourself, Your Team, and Your World, Keith Yamashita and Sandra Spataro. A practical guide to help you move forward when everything seems to be headed in reverse.
  • Why Not?, Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres. How to use everyday ingenuity to solve problems - big and small. 
 - 14 Jul 2005

The Art of Project Management - Scott Berkun

Review: Scott Berkun's The Art of Project Management

The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun

oreilly.com - Online Catalog: The Art of Project Management

(Via 43 Folders.) 

 - 31 May 2005

Two books by Stephen Gould:

  • Jumper, about a person who discovers they can teleport
  • and Reflex, a sequel to Jumper

Link from BoingBoing. 

 - 23 Mar 2005

Books on the Enneagram?

by Helen Palmer:

by Don Richard Riso: 

 - 27 Feb 2005

Sources for etexts, free and for mere money:

Glommed from RuTemple's Livejournal: A Reader's Gazetteer 

 - 07 Jan 2005

Beekeeper's Apprenctice

 - 24 Dec 2004

Browsing one day ...

  • Daughter of the Forest, Juliet Marillier (also Son of the Shadows)
  • Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
  • rudulf carnap, empiricism, semantics and ontology, from discussion on philosophy.
  • The Transparent Society : Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom, by David Brin. May 1998, ISBN 020132802X 
 - 20 Dec 2004

More from Ru Temple?

To borrow a phrase from an aunt on Mary's side of the family (her

youngest sister, my Aunt Karen), "what wonderful things are you reading these days?"

I've just finished, in no particular order,
  • Plainsong , by Deborah Grabien - an odd-yet-sweet little changing of the gods at a millenium;
  • Good-bye to All That , Robert Graves' autobiography up through 1939; dealing largely with his coming of age in the trenches of WWI, and early life.
  • the Anthropology of Turquoise , by Ellen Meloy. just wonderful - if you like Barbara Kingsolver's essays or Diane Ackerman's Natural History of the Senses , you'll love this. If you haven't read the latter, you should try it out...
hugs
Ruth 
 - 09 Sep 2004

Silver Metal Lover - Tanith Lee

From Callahans : 

 10:31:19:Rikhei: I recently read "The Silver Metal Lover" by Tanith Lee
 10:31:22:Rikhei: Have you read it?
 10:31:25:tamouse__: no
 10:31:35:Rikhei: You should get a copy and read it.
 10:31:36:tamouse__: i'm so under-read it's apalling
 10:31:39:Rikhei: Like, yesterday.
 10:31:52:Rikhei: It's a love story, and I think it's a fairly quick read.
 10:32:04:tamouse__: i'll add it to my wiki

 - 29 Jul 2004

Lois McMasters Bujold: Miles Vorkosigan / Barrayar series.

Recommended by a few in Callahans. Hopefully someone will come up with a sort of order to read them in. Tiggeroo has these. :-) 

 - 15 Jul 2004

Recommended from Callahans:

  • Gormenghast
amazon link From Amazon.com:
A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and a dazzling array of bizarre creatures inhabit the magical world of the Gormenghast novels which, along with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, reign as one of the undisputed fantasy classics of all time. At the center of it all is the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, who stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle and its kingdom, unless the conniving Steerpike, who is determined to rise above his menial position and control the House of Groan, has his way.


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