Bookie-normous week ahead!

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Jun 232009
 

It’s a big week for buyers from BookieMonster – we’ve got a heap of new secondhand book listings on TradeMe that started just yesterday evening, as well as a huge range of heavily discounted BRAND NEW books from just $4.95! Here’s some of the highlights: Discounted Brand New Books Are you looking for some awesome fiction reads for these cold winter months but don’t have a lot of spare cash to spend? We have some amazing fiction deals starting at just $4.95! Some of the titles available: A Bed in Heaven – Tessa de Loo The Wonder Spot – Melissa Banks (author of A Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing) The Ultimate Good Luck – Richard Ford Sappho’s Leap – Erica Jong Ardour – Lily Prior This is just a small selection – we have over 130 titles available at this super low price! Click here for our cheap BRAND NEW book [...read more...]

BookieMonster’s Unappreciated Classics No. 1: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder

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Jun 222009
 
BookieMonster's Unappreciated Classics No. 1: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder

In December 2000 Wired magazine published an article entitled O, Engineers which revisited many of the main players from a 1981 published book Wired referred to as “the original nerd epic”, The Soul of a New Machine by journalist Tracy Kidder. In 2001 I was a book geek attempting to turn myself into a computer geek – my English major BA in hand and with a chronic illness behind me I was attempting to give myself some needed personal security by studying computer science, in the hope that I would end up in a well-paid, secure job market. Then I found The Soul of a New Machine. I read the Wired article sometime around the beginning of 2001, with my first year of computer science study behind me, and my immediate thought was “I have to read this book”. Computer Science students may not have much need for the university [...read more...]

Book Spotlight: The New Face of War by Bruce Berkovitz

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Jun 222009
 

The New Face of War : How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century by Bruce Berkowitz   Click here to purchase this book from BookieMonster on TradeMe for only $19.95!     Description: As American and coalition troops fight the first battles of this new century — from Afghanistan to Yemen to the Philippines to Iraq — they do so in ways never before seen. Until recently, information war was but one piece of a puzzle, more than a sideshow in war but far less than the sum total of the game. Today, however, we find information war revolutionizing combat, from top to bottom. Gone are the advantages of fortified positions — nothing is impregnable any longer. Gone is the reason to create an overwhelming mass of troops — now, troop concentrations merely present easier targets. Instead, stealth, swarming, and “zapping” (precision strikes on individuals or equipment) are [...read more...]

BookieMonster’s cookbook offerings – yummy winter warmers!

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Jun 192009
 
BookieMonster's cookbook offerings - yummy winter warmers!

At this cold time of year there’s nothing nicer than a warm oven and kitchen emitting lots of yummy smells! We have some fabulous cook books to help you in creating your own little piece of winter heaven. Slow cookers or crockpots are becoming hugely popular these days because of their convenience, ease-of-use and because they are a great way to use cheaper ingredients (cheaper cuts of meat work much better in slow cookers than expensive cuts). We have seen an explosion in popularity of slow cooker cookbooks, and here’s a few of our offerings:     Click here to see our listings for slow cooking cookbooks. Discovering new variants of ethnic cooking is also becoming popular, with people looking to different parts of the world for new flavour experiences.

Woot woot! New Jasper Fforde is coming…

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Jun 182009
 

It’s going to be a long wait, but the new Jasper Fforde is being released this December! (dang. so long to go) The new book is a departure from both the Thursday Next and Nursery Crimes series. It’s called Shades of Grey and sounds like the usual mind-blowing, innovative Fforde experience set in a world where social status is determined by a person’s ability to see colours. Seems like it will be more of a darker thriller-type story.  Paragraph-length excerpt below. Shades of Grey page on Jasperfforde.com

Book Spotlight: 21 Dog Years : A cube dweller’s tale by Mike Daisey

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Jun 172009
 

  Description: In 1998, when Amazon.com went to temp agencies to recruit people, they gave them a simple directive: send us your freaks. Thus began Mike Daisey’s love affair with the world’s biggest bookstore. Mike Daisey worked at Amazon.com for nearly three years during the dot-com frenzy of the late 1990s. Now that his nondisclosure agreement has expired, he can tell the story of tech culture, hero worship, cat litter, Albanian economics and venture capitalism that feeds into the delusional cocktail exulted as the New Economy. BookieMonster says: I had to review and spotlight this book. For anyone who’s ordered from Amazon, dealt with Amazon, read about Amazon or thought “hey, wouldn’t it be so cool to work at Amazon?” this is the book for you. The descriptions of cube dwelling and dealing with customers are just hilarious, and ring totally true. This hilarity only increases with Daisey’s story of the [...read more...]

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