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Book Club Meeting – January 10th

January 9, 2019 by dgrace Leave a Comment

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:

  • Birdie / Tracey Lindberg
  • How to be a Good Creature / Sy Montgomery
  • Every Last One / Anna Quindlen
  • Alternate Side / Anna Quindlen
  • The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle / Stuart Turton
  • Bibliophile / Jane Mount
  • The Dinner / Herman Koch
  • First Snow, Last Light / Wayne Johnston
  • The Book of M / Peng Shepherd
  • The Big Tiny : a Built-It Myself Memoir / Dee Williams
  • The Driver in the Driverless Car : How are Technology Choices will Create the Future / Vivek Wadwha
  • Robot-Proof : Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence / Joseph Aoun
  • Educated : A Memoir / Tara Westover

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We’ve made our list – Best Reads 2018

December 10, 2018 by dgrace Leave a Comment

 

Looking forward to reading some good books over the holidays?
Thinking about a perfect gift for the readers in your life?
Well, we’ve made our list and checked it twice – so check out BCIT Library’s Best Reads 2018 guide.
Happy holidays!

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

November 29, 2018 by dgrace Leave a Comment

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

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

October 27, 2018 by dgrace Leave a Comment

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:

  • You are not a gadget / Jaron Lanier
  • Barkskins: a novel / Annie Proulx
  • Pachinko / Min Jin Lee
  • You think it, I’ll say it / Curtis Sittenfeld
  • March / John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell, Chris Ross
  • Unearthing Secrets: Gathering Truths / Jules Koostachin
  • The Power : a novel / Naomi Alderman
  • Berlin: city of stones / Jason Lutes
  • Prediction Machines: the simple economics of artificial intelligence / Joshua Gans
  • The smartest places on earth: why rustbelts are the emerging hotspots of global innovation / Antoine van Agtmael and Fred Bakker

 

 

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Authorized! with Christopher Siu

September 26, 2018 by dgrace Leave a Comment

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).

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Book Club meets next on Wednesday, October 3rd

September 24, 2018 by dgrace Leave a Comment

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

  • Edinburgh / Alexander Chee
  • The Emperors of Chocolate  / by Joel Glen Brenner
  • 21 :Lessons for the 21st Century / by Yuval Noah Harari
  • Consciousness Explained / Danel Dennett
  • Middlemarch / Eliot, George
  • 12 Rules for Life : an antidote for chaos / Jordan B. Peterson
  • Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and a culture in crisis / J.D. Vance
  • The Wheel of Time / Robert Jordan
  • Tomboy Survival Guide / Ivan Coyote
  • Educated: a memoir / Tara Westover
  • Thinking in Bets : Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts / Annie Duke
  • Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now / Jaron Lanier
  • The Death of Expertise and Why it Matters / Thomas Nichols
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane / Neil Gaiman

August 2018

  • Barkskins / Annie Proulx
  • Tilly : Story of Hope and Resilience / Monique Gray Smith
  • Nomad Land / by Jessica Bruder
  • Triumph of the City / Edward L. Glaeser
  • Heart Berries: a Memoir / Teresa Marie Mailhot
  • The Twelve Tribes of Hattie / Ayanna Mathis
  • Holes / Gordan Korman
  • Refugee / Alan Gratz
  • Moonwalking with Einstein : the Art and Science of Remembering Everything / Joshua Foer
  • Someone You Love is Gone: A Novel / Gurjinder Basran
  • The Jade Peony / Wayson Choy

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Book Club: Books to movies and more!

July 16, 2018 by dgrace Leave a Comment

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 :

  • Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda (movie title: Love, Simon)
  • The Hate U Give / Angie Thomas
  • Molly’s Game / Molly Bloom

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:

  • Younger Next Year / Chris Crowley and Dr. Harry Lodge
  • Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier / Edward Glaeser
  • Give and Take : a Revolutionary Approach to Success / Adam Grant
  • Late Nights on Air / Elizabeth Hay
  • Alone in the Classroom / Elizabeth Hay
  • The Punishment She Deserves / Elizabeth George
  • Lost and Found / Brooke Davis
  • Swamp Angel / Ethel Wilson
  • Circe / Madeline Miller
  • The Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep / Steven Heighton
  • Aquamarine / Carol Anshaw
  • Seven Moves / Carol Anshaw
  • Nodmadland: Surviving America in the Twenty First Century / Jessica Bruder

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

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July Book Club Meeting

June 24, 2018 by dgrace Leave a Comment

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:

  • Museum of Extraordinary Things / Alice Hoffman
  • Nocturne / Helen Humphries
  • Who Do You Think You Are? / Alice Munro
  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine / Gail Honeyman
  • Happenstance / Carol Shields
  • Shrill :Notes from a Loud Woman / Lindy West
  • Braided Skin / Chelene Knight
  • 100 Days / Juliane Okot Bitek
  • A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier / Ishmail Beah
  • Make Miracles in 40 Days / Mealody Beattie
  • The Chosen / Chaim Potok
  • The Interestings / Meg Wolitzer
  • Brother / David Chariandy
  • Fates and Furies / Lauren Groff

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Titles to Talk About

May 4, 2018 by dgrace Leave a Comment

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:

  • Never Out of Season / Rob Dunn
  • American War : a Novel / Omar El Akkad
  • Exit West / Messian Hamid
  • You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me/ Sherman Alexie
  • Thin Bright Line / Lucy Jane Bledsoe
  • Dear Current Occupant / Chelene Knight
  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine / Gail Honeyman
  • The Women in the Castle/ Jessica Shattuck
  • All the Light You Cannot See / Anthony Doerr
  • The Battle of Kursk / David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House
  • Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race / Reni Eddo-Lodge
  • Indian Horse / Richard Wagamese
  • Give and Take / Adam Grant
  • Northern Light / Jennifer Donnelly
  • Most Likely to Succeed : Preparing Our Kids for the New Innovation Era / Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith
  • Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation / Jay Samit

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

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Looking for The Missing Manuals? Safari Books has them…

April 10, 2018 by dgrace 6 Comments

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)

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