Getting things done by David Allen – Brief Remarks

Copyright © David Allen, 2001.

In today’s world, yesterday’s methods just don’t work. Veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country.

Allen’s premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective productivity and unleash our creative potential.

From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work, showing you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down. Learn how to:

• Apply the “do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it” rule to get your in-box to empty
• Reassess goals and stay focused in changing situations
• Plan and unstick projects
• Overcome feelings of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed
• Feel fine about what you’re not doing

David Allen has been called one of the world’s most influential thinkers on productivity and has been a keynote speaker and facilitator for such organizations as New York Life, the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, L.L. Bean, and the U.S. Navy. He is president of The David Allen Company and has more than twenty years experience as a management consultant and executive coach.

A different mirror by Ronald Takaki – Brief Remarks

A dramatic new retelling of our nation’s past by today’s preeminent multiculturalism scholar, Ronald Takaki, this book examines America’s history in “a different mirror”, from the perspective of the minority peoples themselves.

Beginning with the colonization of the “New World” and ending with the Los Angeles riots of 1992, this book recounts the history of America in the voices of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States, Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others, groups who helped create this country’s rich mosaic culture.

In this significant work of scholarship, Professor Takaki grappels with the raw truth of American history and examines the ultimate question of what it means to be an American.

No Limit Hold’em by David Sklansky – Brief Remarks

No limit hold’em is exploding in popularity. Before 2000, it could be difficult to find a game. In 2006, it is played everywhere, in casino cardrooms, in backrooms and homes, and on the Internet.

Now anyone can find a game, but few know how to play well. Most players learn by watching television or by listening to dubious advice from their friends. While they may have picked up a valuable tidbit here or there, most players have two options: wise up or go broke.

It is the definitive work on this complex game. It provides you a window into the heads of experts, teaching you in straightforward and enjoyable terms the how’s and why’s of winning play.

It covers critical concepts like manipulating the pot size, adjusting correctly to stack sizes, winning the battle of mistakes, reading hands, and manipulating opponents into playing badly. it teaches you about implied odds and how to size your bets and raise effectively. It even covers many principles of short stacked play that will give you a bid edge in no limit hold’em tournaments.

Never before have so many people played no limit hold’em, and never before has there been so much opportunity to win big.

Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing by Frank Adelstein – Brief Remarks

It explains a revolutionary and rapidly evolving paradigm for computing: mobile users seamlessly interacting with wireless devices embedded in the environment. These devices provide a platform for many novel applications, ranging from pervasive health monitoring to homeland security.

The only authoritative source offering a holistic view of pervasive computing, it explains computing fundamentals from the increasingly dominat mobile perspective.

This text helps you to:

• Get a panoramic view of the fastest-growing and most dynamic field in computing.
• Learn the underlying engineering principles that make pervasive computing work.
• Get in-depth understanding of the most dynamic technologies for service discovery, wireless security, wireless sensor networking and other key components.
• Perform practical exercises and projects that demonstrate how the pieces work and fit together.
• Preview the latest research that will help realize the full potential of pervasive computing.

Complete with numerous specific examples of how pervasive computing technologies are used and integrated, this missing-link volume definitely describes the present and future of mobile and pervasive computing.

The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky – Brief Remarks

Now, for the millions of poker players who know the basics, but do not fully understand the logic and principles of skillful play, here is a serious, comprehensive guide that shows how to think like a professional poker player.

The Theory of Poker puts you inside the heads of the greatest poker players in the world. It tells you the all-important factors you should consider in a particular situation before determining what to do.

It talks about the general theories and concepts of poker play that are operative in nearly every variation of poker and describes the thought processes of advanced poker players.

Using sample hands, it analyzes every aspect of a poker hand from the ante structure to play after the last card has been dealt in such games as five-card draw, seven-card stud, hold’em, draw lowball, and razz; or seven-card lowball.

Also included for quick easy reference are an appendix of game rules and a glossary of poker terms.