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| Books I Read in 2015 |
In 2015, I read number of books. But, the most exciting titles I feel are as below.
TimeLine - Michael Crichton (Author)
In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with history opened to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find themselves fighting for their very survival–six hundred years ago. . . .
The Lost World - Michael Crichton (Author)
"Harrowing thrills . . . fast-paced and engaging.”—People
“A very scary read.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Action-packed.”—New York Daily News
“An edge-of-the-seat tale.”—St. Petersburg Times
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end—the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, and the island indefinitely closed to the public.
There are rumors that something has survived. . . .
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton (Author)
“Wonderful . . . powerful.”—The Washington Post Book World
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price.
Until something goes wrong. . . .
In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller.
“Frighteningly real . . . compelling . . . It’ll keep you riveted.”—The Detroit News
“Crichton’s dinosaurs are genuinely frightening.”—Chicago Sun-Times
“Full of suspense.”—The New York Times Book Review
Congo - Michael Crichton (Author)
Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists are mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes.
Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies—all motionless except for one moving image—a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.
In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 "signs," the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to finger paint. But recently her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition—along with Amy—is sent into the Congo, where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death . . .
आर्य चाणक्य - जनार्दन ओक (लेखक)
"सर्वसाधारण मनुष्याला जीवनापासून परावृत्त करणं अतिरिक्त अहिंसेचा अवलंब करणाऱ्या गोष्टीमुळे राष्ट्राचं अपरिमित नुकसान होते हे ध्यानी घेणं आवश्यक आहे. आम्हाला कुणावरही आक्रमण करण्याची कांक्षा नही. परंतु आमच्यावरती झालेलं आक्रमण आम्ही सहन करणार नही. नवनिर्माणाच्या नावाने होणारी असंथ मनाची भावना अव्यवस्था राष्ट्रास हानिकारक ठरते. सांप्रत संपूर्ण आर्यावर्तात हीच अवस्था निर्माण झाली आहे. हे सारं संपुष्टात यावं असा माझा आग्रह आहे. आपला हा उद्योग त्याप्रीत्यर्थ आहे. धर्म, वैभव, सद्भाव, साधर्म्य हे राष्ट्राचे सामर्थ्य आहे. या चार गोष्टी जिथे नांदतात ते राष्ट्र आदर्श मानलं जातं. माझा अट्टाहास अशा राष्ट्रांकारिता आहे. कुठल्याही एका विविक्षीत वर्गानं संपन्न असावं आणि इतरांनी त्यापासून वंचित असावं हा राज्यानिर्मितीचा उद्देश नाही. अधिक अधिक प्रजेनं सुखी असावं हा या निर्मितीचा मुळ उद्देश आहे."
- आर्य चाणक्य
Under the Hood of .NET Memory Management - Chris Farrell (Author), Nick Harrison (Author)
This book starts with an introduction to the core concepts of .NET memory management and garbage collection, and then quickly layers on additional details and intricacies. Once you're up to speed, you can dive into the guided troubleshooting tour, and tips for engineering your application to maximise performance. And to finish off, take a look at some more sophisticated considerations, and even a peek inside the Windows memory model.
Windows Internals, Part 1 and Part 2 (6th Edition) (Developer Reference) - by Mark E. Russinovich (Author), David A. Solomon (Author), Alex Ionescu (Author)
Delve inside Windows architecture and internals—and see how core components work behind the scenes. Led by three renowned internals experts, this classic guide is fully updated for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2—and now presents its coverage in two volumes.As always, you get critical insider perspectives on how Windows operates. And through hands-on experiments, you’ll experience its internal behavior firsthand—knowledge you can apply to improve application design, debugging, system performance, and support.
In Part 1, you will:
- Understand how core system and management mechanisms work—including the object manager, synchronization, Wow64, Hyper-V, and the registry
- Examine the data structures and activities behind processes, threads, and jobs
- Go inside the Windows security model to see how it manages access, auditing, and authorization
- Explore the Windows networking stack from top to bottom—including APIs, BranchCache, protocol and NDIS drivers, and layered services
- Dig into internals hands-on using the kernel debugger, performance monitor, and other tools
Delve inside Windows architecture and internals—and see how core components work behind the scenes. Led by three renowned internals experts, this classic guide is fully updated for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2—and now presents its coverage in two volumes.
As always, you get critical insider perspectives on how Windows operates. And through hands-on experiments, you’ll experience its internal behavior firsthand—knowledge you can apply to improve application design, debugging, system performance, and support.
In Part 2, you’ll examine:
- Core subsystems for I/O, storage, memory management, cache manager, and file systems
- Startup and shutdown processes
- Crash-dump analysis, including troubleshooting tools and techniques
Sachin Jegaonkar is a Software Developer based out of Pune, India. He has over 9 years of software industry experience mainly in C++, VC++, COM, C# ASP.Net.
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