The C programming Language By Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie.

Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 Sub edition (March 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0131103709
ISBN-13: 978-0131103702



The authors present the complete guide to ANSI standard C language programming. Written by the developers of C, this new version helps readers keep up with the finalized ANSI standard for C while showing how to take advantage of C's rich set of operators, economy of expression, improved control flow, and data structures. The 2/E has been completely rewritten with additional examples and problem sets to clarify the implementation of difficult language constructs. For years, C programmers have let K&R guide them to building well-structured and efficient programs. Now this same help is available to those working with ANSI compilers. Includes detailed coverage of the C language plus the official C language reference manual for at-a-glance help with syntax notation, declarations, ANSI changes, scope rules, and the list goes on and on.


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Inside Steve's Brain - Leander Kahney

Author:             Leander Kahney

Reading level: Ages 18 and up
Hardcover:       304 pages
Publisher:         Portfolio Hardcover; 1St Edition edition (April 17, 2008)
Language:        English




Steve Jobs has turned his personality traits into a business philosophy. Here’s how he does it.

It’s hard to believe that one man revolutionized computers in the 1970s and ’80s (with the Apple II and the Mac), animated movies in the 1990s (with Pixar), and digital music in the 2000s (with the iPod and iTunes). No wonder some people worship him like a god. On the other hand, stories of his epic tantrums and general bad behavior are legendary.

Inside Steve’s Brain cuts through the cult of personality that surrounds Jobs to unearth the secrets to his unbelievable results. It reveals the real Steve Jobs—not his heart or his famous temper, but his mind. So what’s really inside Steve’s brain? According to Leander Kahney, who has covered Jobs since the early 1990s, it’s a fascinating bundle of contradictions.

Jobs is an elitist who thinks most people are bozos—but he makes gadgets so easy to use, a bozo can master them.

He’s a mercurial obsessive with a filthy temper—but he forges deep partnerships with creative geniuses like Steve Wozniak, Jonathan Ive, and John Lasseter.

He’s a Buddhist and anti-materialist—but he produces mass-market products in Asian factories, and he promotes them with absolute mastery of the crassest medium, advertising.

In short, Jobs has embraced the traits that some consider flaws—narcissism, perfectionism, the desire for total control—to lead Apple and Pixar to triumph against steep odds. And in the process, he has become a self-made billionaire.

In Inside Steve’s Brain, Kahney distills the principles that guide Jobs as he launches killer products, attracts fanatically loyal customers, and manages some of the world’s most powerful brands.

The result is this unique book about Steve Jobs that is part biography and part leadership guide, and impossible to put down. It gives you a peek inside Steve’s brain, and might even teach you something about how to build your own culture of innovation.



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Can Love Happen Twice?

Book:                 Can Love Happen Twice?
Author:                 Ravinder Singh
ISBN:                 0143417231
ISBN-13:                9780143417231, 978-0143417231
Publishing Date: 2011
Publisher:         Penguin
Language:         English



Does cupid strike just once, or can people fall in love all over again when they meet someone new?

This is the central theme that's explored in Can Love Happen Twice, Ravinder Singh's second novel.

Can Love Happen Twice takes the story forward from where the author's previous novel, I Too Had a Love Story, left its protagonists. The book traces Ravin's life after his success as a novelist, and he's invited, along with his friends, to a special Valentine's Day program in a popular radio station in Chandigarh.

As people across the country tune in to listen to his heartbreaking love story, the novel takes a stunning turn – Ravin doesn't show up during the program. His friends Manpreet, Amardeep and Happy read through Ravin's unfinished second book to find out where he is, and listeners from across Chandigarh are taken through an emotional ride when Ravin's next tryst with love comes to light.

Can Love Happen Twice is a clean and simple love story that was highly anticipated by readers after the success of Ravinder's first novel, I Too Had a Love Story.

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I Too Had A Love Story by Ravinder Singh

Title                I Too Had A Love Story
Author        Ravinder Singh 
Publisher        Srishti, 2009
ISBN        8188575704, 9788188575701
No. of Pages  112
Size:               19 MB




Description: In his debut novel I Too Had a Love Story, Ravinder Singh explores the relevance of love in a modern setting, where commitment is a term that's fast finding new definitions.

The book kicks off with the story of Ravin and Khushi, and their unconventional love story that fails to fall prey to general stereotypes. They are two complete strangers with different dreams and goals who meet each other online, in a matrimonial website. What follows next is a journey that reaffirms Ravin's faith in the magic of love, one that takes them through several emotional highs and lows.

Do Ravin and Khushi confess their feelings and get together?

Will their love, which blossoms through their online conversations, stand the test of time?

Ravinder Singh's novel is heartwarming mainly because the conversations and characters in the book are rooted in reality, so that every single reader can relate to the story.

About the Author
Ravinder Singh is one of the rising authors in the Indian literary scene, and he hails from a Sikh family in Odisha.

After his debut novel, he hit the right chords again with his book Can Love Happen Twice in the year 2011.

Ravinder Singh's writing style is lucid and simple. His books are ideal for light hearted reading.

Born in the year 1982, he initially pursued a career in an IT company, having completed his engineering. He turned to writing after joining ISB for a course in management. Apart from his literary pursuits, Singh is crazy about Punjabi music and is a snooker addict.

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The Google story

Title                  The Google story
Authors          David A. Vise, Mark Malseed
Edition          5, illustrated
Publisher          Delacorte Press, 2005
Original from  the University of Michigan
Digitized           7 Dec 2007
ISBN           055380457X, 9780553804577
Length           326 pages




"Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors’ and Ford’s combined, its staff eats for free in a dining room that used to be run by the Grateful Dead’s former chef, and its employees traverse the firm’s colorful Silicon Valley campus on scooters and inline skates.

THE GOOGLE STORY is the definitive account of the populist media company powered by the world’s most advanced technology that in a few short years has revolutionized access to information about everything for everybody everywhere.
In 1998, Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, “change the world” through a search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free.

While the company has done exactly that in more than one hundred languages, Google’s quest continues as it seeks to add millions of library books, television broadcasts, and more to its searchable database.
Readers will learn about the amazing business acumen and computer wizardry that started the company on its astonishing course; the secret network of computers delivering lightning-fast search results; the unorthodox approach that has enabled it to challenge Microsoft’s dominance and shake up Wall Street. Even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult choices that will enable it to continue expanding while sustaining the guiding vision of its founders’ mantra: DO NO EVIL."


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Well Done Secret Seven

Author:          Enid Blyton
First edition: 1951
Illustrator:    George Brook
Category:      Secret Seven
Genre:           Mystery/Adventure
Type:             Novels/Novelettes
Book no:        03



Review by Dennis Worley

The third book starts with Janet late for a meeting because she has mislaid her badge, and she can't go without it because Peter is 'awfully strict about badges'. She arrives late and this time she is the guilty one who shouts out the password. That's three occurrences in three books! Peter frowns and then looks to see if she has her badge on as he had made up his mind not to allow her in if she hadn't found it. He certainly runs a tight ship!

They decide to find a new cooler meeting place because of the hot weather and find a tree in a wood and make a tree house. Pam suggests that they carve S.S. in the trunk, but Peter is having none of it. "My father says that scribbling on walls and pavements and carving on trees is only done by idiots. And if anyone in the Secret Seven wants to be an idiot he can jolly well get out." So he is certainly doesn't mind what he says and has no favourites. It's almost as if the other six are not really close friends of his. He is just their leader and he doesn't mind telling them off and telling them what to do. A bit later Pam is in trouble again. She almost gets sacked because she squeals at an inopportune moment.

Susie is not in this one, but she does get mentioned when Peter warns Jack not to mention the tree house to 'that awful sister of yours'. That's the way they usually refer to her.

That night Colin suddenly remembers that he has left his book on ships in the tree house and so a night adventure is called for. He decides to take Peter with him and wakes him up in the time-honoured way by throwing pebbles through is window and manages to hit Peter on the cheek. So Peter awakes in a bad mood, but forgets this when Colin explains. The story develops quickly from there and in the end Pam and Barbara come in for some praise from Peter, so he is human after all! Interestingly, Pam says that she notices car numbers because she wants to see if she can spot a 'Z' one day. That's the sort of thing the boys would normally be interested in, I would have thought.



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Look Out, Secret Seven

Author:Enid Blyton
First edition: 1962
Illustrator: Burgess Sharrocks
Category: Secret Seven
Genre: Mystery/Adventure
Type: Novels/Novelettes
Book no:14


Look out Secret Seven follows on from the previous book, and it is now the Easter holidays. Susie and Binkie (now disguised as nursery rhyme characters) are worse than ever. Susie gains access to a meeting in disguise, and Binkie actually causes the meeting to be literally washed out. Pam sees the funny side of it the next day, but Peter doesn't.

Jack, now back in the fold, but late for the meeting due to Susie's misinformation, evidently hasn't forgotten the events of the last book. He is so ashamed when Susie tells him what happened that he decides to play safe and stay away. He can hardly be blamed for Susie's antics this time though, but one wonders what would have happened had he been present.

This story has a few unexpected twists and turns. They have two aims: to try and find the medals stolen from a general, and also to keep a look out for a gang who are taking birds' eggs in Bramley wood. Jack, George and Barbara confront some nest raiders. Two of the thugs attack Jack and George, and poor old Jack ends up with egg on his face. Barbara bravely tells the third baddie to 'clear off' but she has to run away to safety when he tries to grab her badge.

A man comes to their rescue and says that the medals might be hidden in a tree. They plan to keep watch one night in the wood. The old rule about the girls not going out at night is waived surprisingly, so they all participate in the climax of the adventure. All seven of them (and Scamper) are then held prisoner in unusual circumstances. Susie and Binkie do them a good turn by going for help. This is Susie's finest hour and she proves to be 'all right' after all. It has a happy ending with all of them getting medals, yes, even Binkie! Actually, it would have been a nice way to end the last book in the series. It is the end of the series as far as Susie goes, so she bows out in style.


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