Barnes & Noble Gift Brings Book Library

The Berks LaunchBox obtained a gift from Barnes & Noble to outfit our bookshelves with a free lending library that all in Berks County can benefit from! It includes topics to help entrepreneurs learn key information about proving out a startup idea or running a business. Plus “How To” books for makers looking for inspiration on home hobbies or projects that can be completed in our Makerspace. Review our full list of books and you can contact Michelle Hnath to borrow a book or review at our LaunchBox.

Barnes & Noble Book Library

For Startups

• The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you -Rob Fitzspatrick
• The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses -Eric Ries
• Testing Business Ideas: A Field Guide for Rapid Experimentation (The Strategyzer Series) -David Bland and Alexander Osterwalder
• Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (The Strategyzer series) – Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
• Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (The Strategyzer Series) – Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
• Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City – Brad Feld
• Business Made Simple: 60 Days to Master Leadership, Sales, Marketing, Execution, Management, Personal Productivity and More – Donald Miller
• Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries – Safi Bahcall
• Brand the Change: The Branding Guide for social entrepreneurs, disruptors, not-for-profits and corporate troublemakers – Anne Miltenburg

For Makers, Prototyping, Programming

• Design for CNC: Furniture Projects and Fabrication Technique – Gary Rohrbacher and Anne Filson
• Make: Getting Started with 3D Carving: Five Step-by-Step Projects to Launch You on Your Maker Journey – Zach Kaplan
• Make: 3D Printing Projects: Toys, Bots, Tools, and Vehicles To Print Yourself  – Brook Drumm and James Floyd Kelly
• Make: Sensors: A Hands-On Primer for Monitoring the Real World with Arduino and Raspberry Pi -Tero Karvinen and Kimmo Karvinen
• Make: Getting Started with Soldering: A Hands-On Guide to Making Electrical and Mechanical Connections – Marc de Vinck
• Make: Wearable Electronics: Design, prototype, and wear your own interactive garments – Kate Hartman
• Practical Electronics for Inventors – Paul Scherz
• Make Your Own PCBs with EAGLE: From Schematic Designs to Finished Boards – Simon Monk and Duncon Amos
• Programming Arduino: Getting Started with Sketches – Simon Monk
• Make: Getting Started with Arduino: The Open Source Electronics Prototyping Platform – Massimo Banzi and Michael Shiloh
• Raspberry Pi: Project Ideas Book: Discover a New World of Possibilities to Build and Develop Original Projects & Programs Step-By-Step – Ethan Upton
• Coding for Kids: Python: Learn to Code with 50 Awesome Games and Activities – Adrienne Tacke
• Programming the Raspberry Pi: Getting Started with Python – Simon Monk
• Hacking Electronics: Learning Electronics with Arduino and Raspberry Pi – Simon Monk
• Parametric Modeling with Autodesk Fusion 360 – Randy Shih