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[edit] CMOS DESIGN

If you want to start a book on CMOS DESIGN: Feel free to copy stuff from my VLSI web page --DavidCary 17:22, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Should Marketing management not just be placed under marketing? Steers82 15:25, 17 Jun 2005 (AEST)

[edit] Please contribute

Should links to books that exists be here at all? I think all blue links should be removed. Some of them have a "please contribute" added to them, but the wishlist is not the place for those kind of requests, is it?

  • Some are little more than stubs or outlines, and have very little if any real content. A blue link in these cases indicates that at least someone has an interest in contributing, which means any new people contributing probably won't be alone. Xerol Oplan 15:35, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
    • This seems a bit odd. This is certainly not where I would have looked for new books to contribute to. It seems better to put stub books with all the other books so people will actually see them. Irrevenant 05:43, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Digital museum

Where should be a Digital Museum (museum of the digital history).


[edit] Remove blue links

Since this is "Requested books" there should not be any blue links - as oposed to the shelfes where there should be no red links. Objections?

--Krischik T 14:21, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Check whether there is actually a real book underlying the blue link. If there is, I have no objection to removing it, Jguk 17:16, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Idea to tidy up this page

This page is too big and it looks so cluttered. Might it be a good idea to split it into several different sections like 'Requests for Arts books', 'Requests for Science books', etc. This will also make it easier for potential authors to find particular requested items. Any thoughts? Xania 21:21, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, it's huge. Νεοπτόλεμος 03:35, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ideas to Tidy Up Page

Personally, I think it seems like a good idea to keep all requests on one page, because it perhaps might makes it easier to attain ideas on books to start, if they are all in one place. This presumes however, that the page is organized and structured elegantly. I will make it elegant. I am open to suggestions on other ways to do it. If someone thinks they can do it better than myself, please feel free to take it over. --Remi0o 21:29, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Book Lead Addendum

[edit] Lens Design

I really think lens design and laser physics would both fit neatly under optics. Have you checked there?

[edit] Business Valuation

This would include techniques for valuing various types of businesses, and pros and cons to each method.

[edit] Other Notes

There is already a 'Hard Times' Study Guide

No, there isn't; it was just a page requesting a 'Hard Times' study guide. Webaware talk 02:02, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TOC

I'm working on TOC for each section. Please help me do them in the same format if you feel like it.

[edit] British Columbia Graduation Exam Program

I am hoping to begin writing some study guides for the British Columbia (Canada) Graduation Exam program but it a rather massive undertaking. If anyone would like to help, please inform me of this intent.

[edit] Combine

Can I combine some requests into one topic? For example the Urban planning section, I mean several of these topics have a lot of information on them but they would become very bare "books" which is why they are perfect encyclopedic articles. Using one phrase such as Urban planning, land use, and design could encompass many of these and ensure a quality "book." Davumaya (talk) 21:14, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes you can combine suggestions, if you think something should be done be bold and do it, as I have just done. --darklama 22:54, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Governmental Accounting

I've added a requested book on Introduction to Governmental Accounting - USA. I am a CPA, Masters in Accountancy, and work for a local government. When I need to teach new employees how governmental accounting works, it's almost imposible using existing sources. All introductory accounting books teach financial accounting for businesses, not for local government. While the very basics are the same, you rapidly reach a point where the rules are different enough that existing textbooks are more confusing than illuminating.

Basically, accounting majors only learn governmental accounting after about 2 years of financial accounting, so the governmental accounting textbooks assume a huge amount of prior knowledge. The problem is that most people hired as governmental accountants/bookkeepers were not accounting majors, so they don't have the huge pool of knowledge to understand governmental accounting text books.

So what I'm proposing is an Introductory Accounting text book which is oriented towards governmental accounting, not towards business accounting.

The reason I specified USA in the title is that each country has it's own set of standards. The accounting standards for local and state governments in the United States are set by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Attempting to create a text book that covers every single country's rules seems like a huge project. This is big enough.

I have the book listed in the Business section, but I suppose that once the book project is started, it could be cross listed both in Business and in Government/Politics (or where ever Public Administration fits) since it is intimately related to Public Administration.

fcoulter (talk) 16:11, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Mathematics for left-brain people

I have added a request for a book on maths for left-brained people. I have almost no capacity for thinking in terms of pictures which makes the standard explanations of algebra and calculus incomprehensible.

I suspect there are a number of other people who would benefit from a book that explains maths in terms of language rather than the usual visual metaphors. If someone else could start it I'll help in anyway that I can.

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