February 2012 | Built In Entertainment Center

Digital Storytelling: A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)DIGITAL STORYTELLINGCarolyn Handler MillerFrom sitting in front of the camp fire to sitting in front of a computer, story-telling has always been rewarding, yet often frustrating. The challenges of telling a story using different media, particularly a new one, can be intimidating, especially to someone...

The Beverly Hills Organizer's Home Organizing Bible: A Pro's Answers to Your Organizing Prayers Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I was excited to buy this book after hearing rave reviews about it. When I got it, I set aside some time and started pouring over all the chapters. Unfortunately, I rent a small apartment with not a lot of storage, small closets, and not many cupboards. I figured this book would be perfect. Boy, was...

Creating A Vibrant City Center Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This accessible, 200-page book offers a terrific overview of urban design principles and how they can be applied to regenerate/revitalize downtowns and city centers. It covers all the basics in 15 easy-to-digest chapters that contain informative images with detailed captions. Best of all, a collection...

Building the Perfect PC Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)There are very few folks who know their subject as well as Robert Bruce Thompson. He has been keeping a web-log for several years now where he discusses many subjects, especially about is daily adventures with building computers, managing a home-network and diagnosing problems with them. Probably the...

The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story (Center Point Platinum Nonfiction) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If this book does not inspire you, you simply cannot be inspired! A poignant, but often hilarious journey with Susan Boyle from her humble beginnings to her dizzying heights of success. This is a book for people of all faiths. One of struggle,courage,and determination. It should be in the hands of anyone...

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A Whole New Mind $16.47 US, is a 2005 release from Daniel H. Pink that covers creative thinking and other aspects of success. Ostensibly geared toward career pros, this non-fiction title analyzes transitions in society as America migrates from an Information Age to a Conceptual Age economy. The text...

Smile Southern California, You're the Center of the Universe: The Economy and People of a Global Region (Stanford General Books) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I am overwhelmed by the intolerance running amuck these days between the political left and the right. The huge hubbubb over Lavine's book is causing such a stir that a book of calm reflection, such as Mr. Flanigan's Smile Book can get unfairly overshadowedFinding a book with facts and personal success...

Windows 7 All-in-One For Dummies Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I purchased this book even before I received Windows 7. I wanted a "heads up" on what I was geting into. Boy was I pleasantly surprised. Woody Leonhead spells it out and tells you exactly as it is. Even questions you wouldn't think to ask. And, to top that off, he even has put in information that Microsoft...

Broadband Entertainment: Digital Audio, Video and Gaming in Your Home Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Broadband Entertainment is an excellent book. It gives a thorough explanation of both the trends in home entertainment and the digital technology that is making them possible. It is written in a very interesting style and covers material ranging from the generations of entertainment and distribution...

Street Smart: Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield for Urban Operations Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Should be in the library of every tactical intelligence officer. Although the title suggests it is for urban warfare, this text is perfectly written for the counterinsurgency fight we are currently engaged in. The sad part is that this book discusses and teaches IPB better than the recent editions of...

The Church Librarian's Handbook: A Complete Guide for the Library and Resource Center in Christian Education Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The Church Librarian's Handbook is a wonderful resource. It describes how to start a church library, where to place it, what it should contain, how to select staff, how to prepare and categorize books and other media materials and how to finance the library. There is a detailed list of Dewey Decimal...

Design Details for Health: Making the Most of Interior Design's Healing Potential (Wiley Series in Healthcare and Senior Living Design) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I am a professional Health Care interior designer who is always looking for resources to enhance my knowledge base for creating healing enviornments in the health care market. A few years ago I attended, along with about 300 other designers, a presentation by a nationally known health care designer....

Making It in the Business: Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Your Goals in the Entertainment Industry Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is a one of a kind look at the psychological issues that actors have. As a person who has been persuing acting for 10 years, I believe that this a a very unique and helpful book. Each chapter presents a real life problem and goes on to discuss, analyze and suggest contructive solutions. It...

Home Theater For Dummies Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I went out and got Home Theater for Everyone (Harley), Build Your Home Theater in a Weekend (Bruyn/Karabian), The Complete Idiot's Guide to Home Theater Systems (Miller), Use Your PC to Build An Incredible Home Theater System (Farkas and Govier), and Home Theater for Dummies (Briere and Hurley). (I've...

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As the title of the book implies, Covey describes the seven habits of highly effective people and techniques for adopting the seven habits. Covey makes clear that an individual must make a paradigm shift before incorporating these habits into his/her own personal life. A paradigm is essentially the way...

iPod: The Missing Manual Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I read the 2008 edition and there are no worthwhile additions in this version. It still reads like a sales pub from Apple (who probably was subbed to write it) with heavy emphasis on the iTunes Store, all of the different models of iPods, and, of course, the Genius feature, another Apple sales tool....

Ready Player One Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Brief summary and review, no spoilers.The year is 2044 and the world is an unpleasant and grim place. Famine and poverty are rampant, and to escape the bleakness of real life most people choose to instead enter the world of OASIS.Let me explain OASIS - this is a virtual world that is very elaborate and...