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Book Club Meeting – January 10th

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The Any Book Book Club is meeting Thursday, January 10th.

We’re the easiest book club around – no required reading, just good conversation!

We’ll be talking about what we read over the break and what we want to read in the new year.

We’re here to help you keep your reading resolution!

Join us on January 10, from 12:30 – 1:30 at the black couches on the main floor of the Burnaby Campus Library.

New and lapsed members always welcome!

Books we discussed at our December book club meeting:

Book Club – December 5th – 12:30 – 1:30

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Staff, faculty and students are invited to the next Any Book Book Club Meeting – Dec 5, 12:30 – 1:30, Burnaby Campus Library, black couches, main floor.

Drop by and let us know what you’ve been reading or what you plan to read!

Here’s a round up of the titles we discussed at our November meeting:

Book Club – November 1st Meeting

•Monkey Beach and Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
•Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
•The Dome by Stephen King
•Old World by Cary Fagan
•The Beaverton Presents Glorious and/or Free by Alex Huntley
•Temp : How American Work, American Business and the American Dream became Temporary / Louis Hyman
•Machine, Platform, Crowd by Andrew McAffee
•21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari.
•Prediction Machines by Ajay Agrawal, Avi Goldfarb and Joshua Gans

November 1st, 12:30 – the Any Book Book Club is meeting again!

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Book club is meeting again on November 1st, at 12:30 at the black couches on the main floor of the Burnaby Campus Library. Drop by and talk about any book you’ve read or are interested in. It really couldn’t be easier!  Last month, these are the titles we talked about:

 

 

Authorized! with Christopher Siu

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Christopher Siu is a faculty member in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at BCIT. We asked him to tell us about his book that has just been published by CRC Press and this is what he had to say:

Christopher Siu

Chris Siu

I joined BCIT in 2008, after working for 15 years in the electronics design industry. My industry projects had involved designing microchips for cellular phones and Bluetooth, and hence wireless
communication became a topic of interest for me. The wireless market has undergone tremendous change and growth over the past several decades; consider that in the 1980’s, barely anyone owned cell phones! The Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to be the next big thing in wireless; fitness trackers such as Fitbit are just the tip of the iceberg. I put together this book IoT and Low Power Wireless to capture where we are at this point in time with IoT research. One thing that amazed me is the ability to easily collaborate with authors around the world, all thanks to the internet!

You can find a print copy of Chris’s book at the Burnaby Campus Library  – TK 5105.8857 I68 2018 or find it online through the library’s subscription to EngNetBase
(Note: login with A# and password is required off campus).

Book Club meets next on Wednesday, October 3rd

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The Any Book Book Club meets next on Wednesday, October 3rd from 12:30 – 1:30.
All faculty, staff and students are welcome to drop by and discuss any book. We meet at the black couches on the main floor of the Burnaby Campus Library. Hope to see you there!

We met in August and September and these are the titles we talked about:

September 2018

August 2018

Book Club: Books to movies and more!

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The book club met for the fifth consecutive month – which I think is a record! We again discussed a wide variety of books, including these three which either just have, or are very soon, going to be made into movies :

If books to movies are your thing you should check out the display case at the Burnaby Campus Library – we’ve got a whole bunch of books that have transitioned to TV or the big screen:

Other titles we talked about were:

We’re meeting again on Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 – 12:30 – 1:30 – don’t miss out!

July Book Club Meeting

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Students, staff and faculty are welcome to drop by for our Any Book Book Club Meeting on Thursday, July 5th from 12:30 – 1:30 at the Burnaby Campus Library.

Discuss your favourite reads and get some great ideas for your summer reading list!

We meet at the black couches on the main floor.

New members are ALWAYS WELCOME.

And in case you’re wondering – these are the titles we discussed last month:

Titles to Talk About

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The Any Book Book Club met yet again, and discussed a diverse collection of titles – if you want to keep us with us, this is what you missed:

We’ll meet again in June – hope to see you then!

Looking for The Missing Manuals? Safari Books has them…

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BCIT Library has now access to Safari Books Online.
Safari includes over 45,000 e-books, conference videos and video courses.
Subjects covered include:

  •         Business
  •         Desktop and web application
  •         Digital Media
  •         Engineering
  •         Information Technology & Software Development
  •         Math & Science
  •         Personal & Professional Development  

Well-known IT publishers include:  O’Reilly Verlag, O’Reilly Media, Microsoft, Adobe, Focal Press, Sams, Sybex, Cisco Press, Que, Peachpit, New Riders, Packt. Well-known business publishers include: Wiley, Jossey-Bass, Bloomberg Press, For Dummies, Routledge. A favourite O’Reilly series is The Missing Manuals.

Check out Safari books now! (*Note – from off-campus you will need to login with your A# and password)