Books by Chris Anderson

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Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 5, 2nd edition

by Chris Anderson
333 pages - - 31.61 MB New!

Silverlight 5 has the potential to revolutionize the way we build business applications. With its flexibility, web deployment, cross-platform capabilities, rich .NET language support on the client, rich user interface control set, small runtime, and more, it comes close to the perfect platform on which to build business applications. It’s a very powerful technology, and despite its youth, it’s moving forward at a rapid pace and is gaining widespread popularity.

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TED Talks

by Chris Anderson
333 pages - - 1 MB New!

TED Talks is the public speaking, presentations, meeting and communication skills book which shares the proven techniques and methods to improve communication skills. Chris Anderson is the author of this tremendous book. He is the curator of TED Talks and a trained journalist. Chris has a wide experience of public speaking and he shows the reader how to master it. He notices that if we crafted talks carefully then it will become a key to spread knowledge, promote a dream and unlock empathy. A speaker can turn on the whole audience without electricity and he motivates them to become the best version of themselves.

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Makers

by Chris Anderson, Cory Doctorow
333 pages - - New!

From Cory Doctorow, the New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother, the repackaged trade paperback of Makers, a novel of the booms, busts, and further booms in store for America―now with a new cover!Perry and Lester invent things―seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent entirely new economic systems, like the "New Work," a New Deal for the technological era. Barefoot bankers cross the nation, microinvesting in high-tech communal mini-startups like Perry and Lester's. Together, they transform the country, and Andrea Fleeks, a journo-turned-blogger, is there to document it.Then it slides into collapse. The New Work bust puts the dot.combomb to shame. Perry and Lester build a network of interactive rides in abandoned Wal-Marts across the land. As their rides, which commemorate the New Work's glory days, gain in popularity, a rogue Disney executive grows jealous, and convinces the police that Perry and Lester's 3D printers are being used to run off AK-47s.Hordes of goths descend on the shantytown built by the New Workers, joining the cult. Lawsuits multiply as venture capitalists take on a new investment strategy: backing litigation against companies like Disney. Lester and Perry's friendship falls to pieces when Lester gets the ‘fatkins' treatment, turning him into a sybaritic gigolo.Then things get really interesting.

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The Long Tail

by Chris Anderson
333 pages - - New!

The New York Times bestseller that introduced the business world to a future that's already here -- now in paperback with a new chapter about Long Tail Marketing and a new epilogue.Winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for Best Business Book of the Year.In the most important business book since The Tipping Point, Chris Anderson shows how the future of commerce and culture isn't in hits, the high-volume head of a traditional demand curve, but in what used to be regarded as misses -- the endlessly long tail of that same curve.