IEEE-USA eBooks

IEEE-USA E-Books offer a convenient way to brush up on career and policy issues. Choose from titles in a number of categories, including: careers, public policy, financial planning, innovation and more. Some titles are available as free member downloads, and most are available at heavily discounted member rates.

Here are a few recently added titles:

Shaping An Engineering Career - Book 1: Responding to Career Challenges - A Personal Journey
The Shaping an Engineering Career Series of e-books describes the challenges that practitioners, academics and their managers, in the engineering and related disciplines, face in building their careers. This series will document the personal history of selected engineers and describe their journeys in transitioning from entry-level employees to either technology professionals or managers. The purpose of this series is to identify the different circumstances that technology professionals have encountered in building their careers, and it will provide some guidance to others about what is required to build a successful career in technology, or related disciplines.
Members: $7.99 | Non-members: $9.99

Start Your Start-Up - Book 3 - Competitive Analysis
The third book in this series guides you through the competitive landscape, helping you to understand who your real competition is, and why it is important to see the landscape the way your customers do. This book also helps you develop an effective positioning strategy, determine the true value of your product or service to your target customer, and find ways to ensure your solution is the ideal one.
Members: $7.99 | Non-members: $9.99

Work Life Balance - Book 2
Book 2 of this two-book series explores work-life balance in three different career stages: early career, mid-career and late-career. The information draws on interviews and input from dozens of people—both those who claim to have achieved a satisfactory sense of balance, and those who say that their lives are far from balanced.
Members: $4.79 | Non-members: $5.99

(source: IEEE-USA)