The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb by Neal Bascomb. So when I was a kid, Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean was one of my favorite books (still is). This is kind of like the real life version. A commando team went into Norway during the War and took out the Nazi facilities that were racing to make their own Atomic bomb. It doesn’t get more high-stakes than that and the fact that it’s all a true story makes it even more interesting.
Head First Mobile Web by Lyza Danger Gardner, Jason Grigsby. I am continuing to work on my programming skills. Mobile is an area I haven’t explored much so this is more of a way to let me see what’s involved. It seems just figuring out what device the user has is tough, much less tailoring the experience for their specific needs! Still, more people in the world have cell phones than working toilets, so mobile is the wave of the future.
The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free by Alex Perry. Speaking of those billions of cell phone users, Africa is one area where the usage of cell phones has exploeded due to the lack of infrastructure. Most of what we see on the news is famine, war, and pestilence and yet, there is another Africa, wired and high-tech, out there. This book tries to show both sides, using the Great Rift Valley as a metaphor of the two Africas.
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