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1939: The Lost World of the Fairby David GelernterISBN 038072748X (0-380-72748-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: '1939: The Lost World of the Fair'Book summary:This book is a strange beast: a meditation on the meaning of the 1939 New York World's Fair seen through the lens of David Gelernter's angry political opinion that society today has gone to moral rot and ruin--mostly because of the ideas of New York-style liberals, who have led us astray. Richly detailed observations of the 1939 World's Fair and its social milieu are interspersed with a rather sparse fictional account of an old-fashioned romance that got its fuse lit on the fairgrounds. If you want a straightforward 1939 World's Fair novel, the classic is still World's Fair, by E. L. Doctorow. But Gelernter writes likes nobody else. His historical research is painstaking, and his pro-1939, anti-modern political jeremiad gives the book an eccentric but propulsive narrative drive. Gelernter has a qualified love of two-fisted old-time social engineers, such as Robert Moses, and he yearns for a time when society was ruled by authority figures instead of celebrities. Ah, the good old days, when the 1939 World's Fair introduced America to TV, the fax machine, nylons, fluorescent lighting, long-distance phone calls, and an underwater Salvador Dali exhibit starring live, half-nude women. Gelernter wrote this book while recovering from a murder attempt by the Unabomber (recounted in Gelernter's Drawing Life), but his true claim to fame is the cranky individualism of his mind. [via]
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Adobe Creative Suite 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniquesby Adobe PressISBN 0321356748 (0-321-35674-8)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Adobe Golive Cs Tips And Tricks: The 200 Bestby Adobe Press, Lynn GrilloISBN 0321278771 (0-321-27877-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adobe Golive Cs Tips And Tricks: The 200 Best'Book summary:GoLive CS is more than just a simple Web authoring tool: As part of Adobe's new Creative Suite (which includes Photoshop and Acrobat), it's a key component of an overall Web workflow that lets you work seamlessly among all of your graphics applications to create spectacular Web sites. This info-packed guide lets users get right down to doing by focusing on just the GoLive features they're mostly like to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, you learn as you go, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to you. Before you know it, you'll be importing layered Photoshop files into GoLive, creating PDF files from within the GoLive environment, and using the visual layout grid and Cascading Style Sheets to turn out fluid, beautiful Web pages. Also covered are all of GoLive CS' new features: better coding tools, on-the-fly style rendering, and more.
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Adobe Golive Cs2 Tips And Tricks: The 250 Bestby Adam Pratt, Lynn GrilloISBN 0321335414 (0-321-33541-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adobe Golive Cs2 Tips And Tricks: The 250 Best'Book summary:GoLive CS2 is more than just a simple Web authoring tool: As part of Adobe's updated Creative Suite 2, it's a key component of an overall Web workflow that lets you work seamlessly among all of your graphics applications to create spectacular Web sites. This info-packed guide lets users get right down to doing by focusing on just the GoLive features they're mostly like to use and showcasing each in stand-alone tipscomplete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, you learn just what you need to know, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to you. Before you know it, you'll be importing layered Photoshop files into GoLive, creating PDF files from within the GoLive environment, and using the visual layout grid and Cascading Style Sheets to turn out fluid, beautiful Web pages. Also covered are all of GoLive CS2's new features: enhanced live rendering, mobile CSS support, Visual CVG-Tiny authoring and more. [via]
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Adobe Indesign Cs2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniquesby Sandee Cohen, David Blatner, Kelly Kordes AntonISBN 0321321901 (0-321-32190-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adobe Indesign Cs2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques'Book summary:InDesign CS2 is more than just a powerful page layout tool: As part of Adobes new Creative Suite 2 (which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, and Acrobat), its a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create spectacular layouts. This info-packed guide lets you get right down to work by focusing on just the InDesign CS2 features youre most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, you learn as you go, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to you. Before you know it, youll be using the Bridge to manage your files, object styles to format your images, and snippets to save layout parts for reuse and much, much more!
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The American Centuryby Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, Kevin BakerISBN 037570938X (0-375-70938-X)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Century'Book summary:Although most of this sprawling book is set in the 20th century, it begins on April 29, 1889, when Benjamin Harrison commemorated the first centennial of American government. This 11-year jump-start allows Harold Evans to write about the last major push to settle the Western territories, the gradual dwindling of Native American societies, the rise to prominence of William Jennings Bryan, and other quintessentially American moments of the 19th century.
But make no mistake about it--The American Century is very much rooted in the modern world. Evans's tight, journalistic prose marks the significant events and personages in America's rise to superpower status and offers several educational surprises, such as a two-page spread on too-little-known naval historian Alfred Mahan, whose The Influence of Sea Power upon History shaped foreign policy in America and several European nations. His treatments of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and the Watergate crisis are substantial highlights. Juxtapositions such as Ralph Nader and Rachel Carson or Jimmy Hoffa and Cesar Chavez make for a lively overview. The book essentially ends with the inauguration of George Bush in 1989, although brief mention is made to some of what has happened since then. Filled with photographs and contemporary editorial cartoons, The American Century is an excellent one-volume chronicle of a rather momentous 100 years. [via]
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American Music: Photographsby Annie LeibovitzISBN 0375505075 (0-375-50507-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Music: Photographs'Book summary:It looks like a gorgeous nostalgia trip to judge by the cover image alone. The photo is of an old school record player that lies unplugged, a white label test-pressing waiting on the turntable, while a band of paper wrapped around the cover announces the title in ye olde woodblock-looking type, American Music. A reading of the small type on the back cover reveals the image to be the very record and turntable left in Elvis Presleys bedroom the day he died, and the mind reels, thinking about whether the King listened to this record on that day or not, and who are the Stamps, anyway? An excellent selection of musician portraits interspersed with crumbly wooden jook joints and wide open fields in the South, American Music covers a wide gamut of jazz, blues, punk, country, hip-hop, rock and roll, folk and gospel musicians. And while most of the pictures were shot between 1999 and 2002, some go back to the early 1970s, when Leibovitz first became Rolling Stone magazine's chief photographer. Some of the artists are very well-known (Michael Stipe, Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan) and some of them are not (Jessie Mae Hemphill, Other Turner, Carlos Coy). Leibovitz really has a way of relaxing her performers, and this is a great part of her gift. Even when the pictures are so posed as to be ridiculous (like, what's Michael Stipe doing on that bedbug-ridden mattress-the guy's a billionaire?), she catches her subjects at their most "real." They are lost in their music, or just doing some "real person" thing (look, there is Beck in his cardoes Beck really drive his own car?). The presentation may be a little hokey, but this book is sure to please most any music fan. --Mike McGonigal [via]
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American Visions: The Epic History of Art in Americaby Robert HughesISBN 0375703659 (0-375-70365-9)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Architecture in the Gardenby Thomas Christopher, James Van SwedenISBN 0375501541 (0-375-50154-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Art Decoby Malcolm HaslamISBN 0345347420 (0-345-34742-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Art of Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: Including the Complete Script of the Film by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucasby George Lucas, Lawrence KasdanISBN 034530957X (0-345-30957-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Art Of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge Of The Sithby George Lucas, JONATHAN RINZLERISBN 0345431367 (0-345-43136-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Art of Star Wars : Episode III Revenge of the Sithby J. W. Rinzler, George LucasISBN 0345431359 (0-345-43135-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Beer Can Collector's Bibleby Jack MartellsISBN 0345289188 (0-345-28918-8)
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Black Holeby Charles BurnsISBN 037542380X (0-375-42380-X)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Hole'Book summary:The first issues of Charles Burns's comics series Black Hole began appearing in 1995, and long before it was completed a decade later, readers and fellow artists were speaking of it in tones of awe and comparing it to recent classics of the form like Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan and Daniel Clowes's Ghost World. Burns is the sort of meticulous, uncompromising artist whom other artists speak of with envy and reverence, and we asked Ware and Clowes to comment on their admiration for Black Hole:
"I think I probably learned the most about clarity, composition, and efficiency from looking at Charles's pages spread out on my drawing table than from anyone's; his was always at the level of lucidity of Nancy, but with this odd, metallic tinge to it that left you feeling very unsettled, especially if you were an aspiring cartoonist, because it was clear you'd never be half as good as he was. There's an almost metaphysical intensity to his pinprick-like inkline that catches you somewhere in the back of the throat, a paper-thin blade of a fine jeweler's saw tracing the outline of these thick, clay-like human figures that somehow seem to "move," but are also inevitably oddly frozen in eternal, awkward poses ... it's an unlikely combination of feelings, and it all adds up to something unmistakably his own. "I must have been one of the first customers to arrive at the comic shop when I heard the first issue of Black Hole was out 10 years ago, and my excitement didn't change over the years as he completed it. I don't think I've ever read anything that better captures the details, feelings, anxieties, smells, and cringing horror of my own teenage years better than Black Hole, and I'm 15 years younger than Charles is. Black Hole is so redolently affecting one almost has to put the book down for air every once in a while. By the book's end, one ends up feeling so deeply for the main character it's all one can do not to turn the book over and start reading again." --Chris Ware
"Charles Burns is one of the greats of modern comics. His comics are beautiful on so many levels. Somehow he has managed to capture the essential electricity of comic-book pop-art iconography, dragging it from the clutches of Fine Art back to the service of his perfect, precise-but-elusive narratives in a way that is both universal in its instant appeal and deeply personal." --Dan Clowes 
Questions for Charles Burns
Amazon.com: Cartoonists are about the only people today who are working like Dickens did: writing serials that appear piece-by-piece in public before the whole work is done. What's it like to work in public like that, and for as long as a project like this takes?
Charles Burns: There were a number of reasons for serializing Black Hole. First of all, I wanted to put out a traditional comic book-- I'd never really worked in that comic pamphlet format before and liked the idea of developing a long story in installments. There's something very satisfying to me about a comic book as an object and I enjoyed using that format to slowly build my story. Serializing the story also allowed me to focus on shorter, more manageable portions; if I had to face creating a 368-page book all in one big lump, I don't know if Id have the perseverance and energy to pull it off.
Amazon.com: One thing that stuns me about this book is how consistent it is from start to finish. From the first frames to the last ones that you drew 10 years later, you held the same tone and style. It feels as though you had a complete vision for the book from the very beginning. Is that so? Or did things develop unexpectedly as you worked on it?
Burns: I guess there's a consistency in Black Hole because of the way I work. I write and draw very slowly, always carefully examining every little detail to make sure it all fits together the way I want it to. When I started the story, I had it all charted out as far as the basic structure goes, but what made working on it interesting was finding new ways of telling the story that hadn't occurred to me.
Amazon.com: Some of the very best of the recent graphic novels (I'm thinking of Ghost World and Blankets, along with Black Hole) have been about the lives of teenagers. Do you think there's something about the form that helps to tell those stories so well?
Burns: That's an interesting question, but I don't know the answer. Perhaps it has more to do with the authors--the kind of people who stay indoors for hours on end in total solitude working away on their heartfelt stories... maybe that kind of reflection lends itself to being able to capture the intensity of adolescence.
Amazon.com: In the time you've been working on Black Hole, graphic novels have leapt into the mainstream. (I think--I hope--we're finally seeing the last of those "They're not just for kids anymore!" reviews.) What did you imagine for this project when you started it? What's it been like to see your corner of the world enter the glare of the spotlight?
Burns: When I started Black Hole I really just wanted to tell a long, well-written story. The themes and ideas that run throughout the book had been turning around in my head for years and I wanted to finally get them all out--put them down on paper once and for all. I've published a few other books and while they sold reasonably well, they didn't set the publishing world on fire. I was pretty sure I'd have some kind of an audience for Black Hole, but that was never a motivating factor in writing the book. And my corner of the world is still pretty dark. I guess I'll be stepping into the spotlight for a little while when the book comes out, but I imagine I'll slip back into my dark little studio when it all settles down again so I can settle back into work.More editions of Black Hole:
The Brand Gap: How To Bridge The Distance Between Business Strategy And Designby Marty NeumeierISBN 0321348109 (0-321-34810-9)
Softcover, Peachpit Pr
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Building the Gettyby Richard MeierISBN 0375400435 (0-375-40043-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatnessby Thomas J. PetersISBN 0375401571 (0-375-40157-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Complete Home Storageby Sunset BooksISBN 0376017678 (0-376-01767-8)
Softcover, Leisure Arts
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The Confident Collector: Art Deco Identification and Price Guideby Tony FuscoISBN 0380770121 (0-380-77012-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar Americaby Lizabeth CohenISBN 0375707379 (0-375-70737-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America'Book summary:The three decades after World War II are often heralded as a Golden Era of American affluence. But as Lizabeth Cohen makes clear, the pursuit of prosperity defined much more than the nations economy; it also became a basic component of American citizenship. Consumers were encouraged to buy not just for themselves, but for the good of the nation.
After a decade and a half of hard times resulting from the Great Depression and the war, the embrace of mass consumption, with its supposed far-reaching benefitsgreater freedom, democracy, and equalitytransformed American life. The extensive suburbanization of metropolitan areas (propelled by such government policies as the GI Bill), the shift from downtowns to shopping centers, and the advent of targeted marketing all fueled the consumer economy, but also sharpened divisions among Americans along gender, class, and racial lines. At the same time, mass consumption changed American politics, inspiring new forms of political activism through the civil rights and consumer movements and prompting politicians to apply the latest marketing strategies to their political campaigns.
Cohen traces the legacy of the Consumers Republic into our time, demonstrating how it has reshaped our relationship to government itself, with Americans increasingly judging public servicesas if one more purchased goodby the personal benefits they derive from them.
Brilliantly researched and reasoned, A Consumers Republic is a starkly illuminating social and political history. [via]More editions of A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America:
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Contributing To Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, And Plug-Insby Kent BeckISBN 0321205758 (0-321-20575-8)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Contributing To Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, And Plug-Ins'Book summary:Eclipse is an integrated development environment (IDE) for software. It also represents an ideal, incorporating modularity, extensibility, and community. Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plug-Ins is therefore significantly more than a book about how to write plug-ins for the Eclipse framework. The book--by software patterns guru Erich Gamma and "extreme programming" exponent Kent Beck--explains how new Eclipse modules should interact with existing software elements, and make themselves further extensible. It also emphasizes the importance of packaging new plug-ins and making them available to others as new Eclipse features. The book's emphasis is on community, and helping the Eclipse project grow and improve.
That said, this book is an excellent how-to guide. Gamma and Beck take the time to carefully detail a couple of model plug-in projects--including the industry-standard Hello World exercise--and take care to explain the highly visual Eclipse development process one step at a time. They don't unleash bushels of source code on the reader, but nonetheless manage to walk the reader through a series of progressively more elaborate extension projects that exercise some of the most exciting parts of the Eclipse framework. As you'd expect from a book involving Gamma, discussion of patterns appears with increasing frequency toward the book's conclusion, enabling the reader to expand on the authors' shared wisdom and understand the Eclipse design better. --David Wall
Topics covered: How to extend the Eclipse development environment--both in the narrow sense of writing code that makes the software do something new, and in the broad sense of participating in the Eclipse community. Specific coverage addresses extension points, markers, perspectives, and help. There's also a guide to the Eclipse architecture, framed as a series of "pattern stories." [via]
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Cottage, Cabin & Vacation Home PlansISBN 0376010614 (0-376-01061-4)
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Creative Design: A New Look at Design Principlesby Philip S. RawsonISBN 0356105059 (0-356-10505-9)
Hardcover, Macdonald Orbis
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Crochet:Discovery and Design: Discovery and Designby Del Pitt FeldmanISBN 0385051336 (0-385-05133-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Daring to Be Yourselfby Alexandra StoddardISBN 0380715783 (0-380-71578-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Design Source Bookby Penny SparkeISBN 0356120058 (0-356-12005-8)
Hardcover, Macdonald
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Designs for Bargello: 62 Original Patterns Inspired by or Adapted from a Range of Historical and Cultural Sourcesby Nikki ScheuerISBN 0385000669 (0-385-00066-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Digital Lighting And Renderingby Jeremy BirnISBN 0321316312 (0-321-31631-2)
Softcover, New Riders Pub
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The Fantastic Kingdomby David Larkin, Margaret MaloneyISBN 0330242210 (0-330-24221-0)
Hardcover, Pan Books
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Feeling at Home: Defining Who You Are and How You Want to Liveby Alexandra StoddardISBN 0380731452 (0-380-73145-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Fundamentals of Database Systemsby Shamkant B. NavatheISBN 0321369572 (0-321-36957-2)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fundamentals of Database Systems'Book summary:Clear explanations of theory and design, broad coverage of models and real systems, and an up-to-date introduction to modern database technologies result in a leading introduction to database systems.
With fresh new problems and a new lab manual, students get more opportunities to practice the fundamentals of design and implementation. More real-world examples serve as engaging, practical illustrations of database concepts. The Fifth Edition maintains its coverage of the most popular database topics, including SQL, security, data mining, and contains a new chapter on web script programming for databases. [via]More editions of Fundamentals of Database Systems:
Fundamentals of Database Systems/oracle 9i Programmingby Ramez Elmasri, Shamkant B. Navathe, Rajshekhar SunderramanISBN 0321206746 (0-321-20674-6)
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Garden and Patio Building Bookby Sunset EditorsISBN 0376012161 (0-376-01216-1)
Softcover, Leisure Arts
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Graphic Design Source Bookby Liz McQuiston, Barry KittsISBN 0356148092 (0-356-14809-2)
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Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Villageby Elizabeth Warnock FerneaISBN 0385014856 (0-385-01485-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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A Handbook of Costumeby Janet ArnoldISBN 0333124812 (0-333-12481-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Hillside Landscapingby Susan Lang, Sunset BooksISBN 0376037776 (0-376-03777-6)
Softcover, Leisure Arts
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Houseby Tracy KidderISBN 0380701766 (0-380-70176-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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How to Wow: Photoshop for Photographyby Ben Willmore, Jack DavisISBN 0321227999 (0-321-22799-9)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Human Use of Human Beingsby Norbert WienerISBN 0380506823 (0-380-50682-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Ice Palace That Melted Away: Restoring Civility and Other Lost Virtues to Everyday Lifeby Bill StumpfISBN 0375402217 (0-375-40221-7)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Illustrator Cs2 for Windows And Macintosh: Visual Quickstart Guideby Peter Lourekas, Elaine WeinmannISBN 0321336569 (0-321-33656-9)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Illustrator CS2 Killer Tipsby Dave Cross, Matt KloskowskiISBN 032133065X (0-321-33065-X)
Softcover, Pearson Technology Group Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips'Book summary:Over 300 productivity-enhancing secrets you need to know about Illustrator CS. Fully illustrated, stand-alone tips reveal the hidden features and productivity-enhancing tricks that allow you to accomplish more in less time with Illustrator CS2. Easy-to-browse format lets you find and apply information instantly and includes many tips and techniques that focus on Illustrator CS2s new features: Converting bitmaps into vectors with Live Trace, Painting with the new Live Paint tool, creating Custom Workspaces, and more. [via]
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Indesign CS/CS2: Killer Tipsby Scott Kelby, Terry WhiteISBN 0321330641 (0-321-33064-1)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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Indesign Cs2 for Macintosh And Windowsby Sandee CohenISBN 0321322010 (0-321-32201-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Indesign Cs2 for Macintosh And Windows'Book summary:You already know why it makes sense for you to learn Adobe InDesign: because major magazines, newspapers, book publishers, ad agencies, graphic-design firms, and corporate creative groups worldwide use it to increase productivity and refine creative results. And you need to get up to speed on the very newest version--Adobe InDesign CS2--today! Enter Adobe InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. Using the task-based, visual approach that has become the hallmark of Peachpit's popular Visual QuickStart Guides, this volume provides a fast, easy, comprehensive introduction to everything InDesign. You'll learn about all aspects of the InDesign interface, including its tools and palettes, as well as how to create documents and master pages, import and style text and objects, automate your work, manage long documents, use the Bezier pen tools,create interactive PDF elements, and work with color. You'll also learn how to use the new Adobe Bridge file browser to locate, manage, and drag and drop assets easily into your InDesign layouts. Youll find a new chapter on working with InCopy, complete coverage of more advanced topics (like preflighting and advanced text control) and a thorough introduction to all of InDesign's productivity-enhancing features and tools. [via]
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Industrial Light and Magic: The Art of Special Effectsby Thomas SmithISBN 0345322630 (0-345-32263-0)
Hardcover, Del Rey
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Industrial Light and Magic: The Art of Special Effects'Book summary:A lavish, profusely illustrated volume that tells the remarkable story of the organization whose name has become synonymous with state-of-the-art special effects: Industrial Light & Magic. From its early days in a large empty warehouse in Southern California's San Fernando Valley, to its Oscar-winning accommplishments creating special effects for the STAR WARS trilogy, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, ET, POLTERGEIST, and a host of others. [via]
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Instant Expert : Collecting Art Decoby Tony FuscoISBN 0375720421 (0-375-72042-1)
Softcover, Random House Information Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Instant Expert : Collecting Art Deco'Book summary:Learn to think, act, and talk like an expert!
" What names are given to the three phases of the Art Deco style?
" Who is Norman Bel Geddes?
" What is an 'ebeniste'?
" What water images are considered Art Deco design icons?
This is a one-of-a-kind reference on Art Deco furniture, sculpture, metalware, prints and graphics, glass, ceramics, and industrial design. Includes a 'fakes alert', plus listings of Art Deco dealers, International Art Deco Societies, museums, shows, and auction houses. [via]More editions of Instant Expert : Collecting Art Deco:
Lost Treasures Of Louis Comfort Tiffanyby Hugh McKeanISBN 0385095856 (0-385-09585-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Lowes Complete Home Decoratingby Lowe's (Firm)ISBN 0376012536 (0-376-01253-6)
Hardcover, Sunset Pub Co
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MAC Design Out of the Boxby Andrew ShalatISBN 0321375742 (0-321-37574-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 for Windows And Macintoshby Dori SmithISBN 0321350278 (0-321-35027-8)
Softcover, Peachpit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 for Windows And Macintosh'Book summary:Even if you've never used Macromedia Dreamweaver before, this Visual QuickStart Guide will have you up and running with Macromedia's popular Web authoring program in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to Macromedia Dreamweaver, leading technology authors Tom Negrino and Dori Smith use their trademark crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you everything thats new in Dreamweaver 8. Filled with step-by-step, task-based instructions and loads of visual aids, this book explains how to use all of the program's visual layout tools, application development features, and code editing support to create stunning, accessible Web sites. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of all the program's new features: drag-and-drop integration of XML data feeds, improved CSS support, advanced style rendering toolbar, the industrys first integrated Web accessibility evaluation tool for Section 508 and WCAG 2 checkpoints, and more! [via]
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Macromedia Flash Mx 2004 for Windows and McIntosh: Visual Quickstart Guideby Katherine UlrichISBN 0321213440 (0-321-21344-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Macromedia Studio Mx 2004: Training from the Sourceby Jeffrey BardzellISBN 0321241584 (0-321-24158-4)
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Making Meaning : How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiencesby Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff, Darrel RheaISBN 0321374096 (0-321-37409-6)
Hardcover, Pearson Technology Group Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making Meaning : How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences'Book summary:Were now hip-deep, if not drowning, in the experience economy. Heres the smartest book Ive read so far that can actually help get your brand to higher ground, fast. And its written by people who not only drew the map, but blazed these trails in the first place.
Brian Collins, Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide Brand Integration Group
In a market economy characterized by commoditized products and global competition, how do companies gain deep and lasting loyalty from their customers? The key, this book argues, is in providing meaningful customer experiences.
Writing in the tradition of Louis Cheskin, one of the founding fathers of market research, the authors of Making Meaning observe, define, and describe the meaningful customer experience. By consciously evoking certain deeply valued meanings through their products, services, and multidimensional customer experiences, they argue, companies can create more value and achieve lasting strategic advantages over their competitors. A few businesses are already discovering this approach, but until now no one has articulated it in such a persuasive and practical way. Making Meaning not only encourages businesses to adopt an innovation process thats centered on meaning, it also tells you how. The book outlines a plan of action and describes the attributes of a meaning-centric innovation team. With insightful real-world examples drawn from the Cheskin company's experience and from the authors' observations of the contemporary global market, this book outlines a plan of action and describes the attributes of a meaning-centric innovation team.
Meaningful experiencesas distinct from trivial onesreinforce or transform the customers sense of purpose and significance. The authors vision of a world of meaningful consumption is idealistic, but dont be fooled: this is a straightforward business book with an eye on the ROI. It shows how to bring R&D, design, and marketing together to create deeper and richer experiences for your customers. Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences is an engaging and practical book for business leaders, explaining how their companies can create more meaningful products and services to better achieve their goals.
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The Making of Star Wars Revenge of the Sithby JONATHAN RINZLERISBN 0345431391 (0-345-43139-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Filmby J. W. RinzlerISBN 0345494768 (0-345-49476-8)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film'Book summary:After the 1973 success of American Graffiti, filmmaker George Lucas made the fateful decision to pursue a longtime dream project: a space fantasy movie unlike any ever produced. Lucas envisioned a swashbuckling SF saga inspired by the Flash Gordon serials classic American westerns, the epic cinema of Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa, and mythological heroes. Its original title: The Star Wars. The rest is history, and how it was made is a story as entertaining and exciting as the movie that has enthralled millions for thirty yearsa story that has never been told as it was meant to be. Until now.
Using his unprecedented access to the Lucasfilm Archives and its trove of never-before-published lost interviews, photos, production notes, factoids, and anecdotes, Star Wars scholar J. W. Rinzler hurtles readers back in time for a one-of-a-kind behind-the-scenes look at the nearly decade-long quest of George Lucas and his key collaborators to make the little movie that became a phenomenon. For the first time, its all here:
" the evolution of the now-classic story and charactersincluding Annikin Starkiller and a huge green-skinned monster with no nose and large gills named Han Solo
" excerpts from George Lucass numerous, ever-morphing script drafts
" the birth of Industrial Light & Magic, the special-effects company that revolutionized Hollywood filmmaking
" the studio-hopping and budget battles that nearly scuttled the entire project
" the directors early casting saga, which might have led to a film spoken mostly in Japaneseincluding the intensive auditions that won the cast members their roles and made them legends
" the grueling, nearly catastrophic location shoot in Tunisia and the subsequent breakneck dash at Elstree Studios in London
" the whos who of young film rebels who pitched in to helpincluding Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, and Brian DePalma
But perhaps most exciting, and rarest of all, are the interviews conducted before and during production and immediately after the release of Star Warsin which George Lucas, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Sir Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, composer John Williams, effects masters Dennis Muren, Richard Edlund, and John Dykstra, Phil Tippett, Rick Baker, legendary production designer John Barry, and a host of others share their fascinating tales from the trenches and candid opinions of the film that would ultimately change their lives.
No matter how you view the spectrum of this thirty-year phenomenon, The Making of Star Wars stands as a crucial documentrich in fascination and revelationof a genuine cinematic and cultural touchstone. [via]More editions of The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film:
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Making the Most of Your Own BackyardISBN 037603078X (0-376-03078-X)
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Mastering the Requirements Processby James Robertson, Suzanne RobertsonISBN 0321419499 (0-321-41949-9)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mastering the Requirements Process'Book summary:Written in an engaging style and relevant for any software analyst or designer, Mastering the Requirements Process provides a powerful and useful guide to defining more complete software requirements that lead to better software overall. It's also filled with innovative advice.
The heart of this book is the authors' Volere Requirements Process Model, a step-by-step guide to gathering your requisites. Throughout this book, the authors use this process to explicate a single case study--a system for a municipality that will optimize the de-icing of roadways during snowy weather. Along the way, the book provides a solid guide to identifying and refining requirements, both functional and nonfunctional (such as performance and ease of use).
There are many excellent ideas in the book, including the notion of fitness for your requirements, which can be later used to track whether the software is successful. The book also wisely separates technology from requirements so that analysts can concentrate on understanding and modeling business problems instead of moving right away to the nuts and bolts of implementation. Even if you don't adopt the Volere model in toto, you can benefit from the concepts of "trawling" (a metaphor for the requirements-gathering process), quality gateways (in which tentative requirements are evaluated for inclusion in a project), and the wise use of patterns to help simplify the process.
Anchored by numerous examples (including many samples of successful requirements), the book provides an appealing mix of new ideas along with a remarkably clear presentation. In short, Mastering the Requirements Process provides useful advice that can make the project specification building phase of the software process easier and more robust. It provides the first steps for improving overall software quality for your organization. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: Volere Requirements Process Model; project blastoff; determining requirements; user and stakeholders; project constraints; requirements constraints; use cases; business events; adjacent systems; innovation; trawling for requirements: apprenticing, interviews, and videotape; functional and nonfunctional requirements; fit criteria; quality gateways; traceability; prototyping and scenarios; low and high fidelity prototypes; patterns and requirements reuse; improving the requirements gathering process. [via]
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Meditationsby Marcus Aurelius, Gregory HaysISBN 0345472373 (0-345-47237-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meditations'Book summary:One measure, perhaps, of a book's worth, is its intergenerational pliancy: do new readers acquire it and interpret it afresh down through the ages? The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated and introduced by Gregory Hays, by that standard, is very worthwhile, indeed. Hays suggests that its most recent incarnation--as a self-help book--is not only valid, but may be close to the author's intent. The book, which Hays calls, fondly, a "haphazard set of notes," is indicative of the role of philosophy among the ancients in that it is "expected to provide a 'design for living.'" And it does, both aphoristically ("Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.") and rhetorically ("What is it in ourselves that we should prize?"). Whether these, and other entries ("Enough of this wretched, whining monkey life.") sound life-changing or like entries in a teenager's diary is up to the individual reader, as it should be. Hays's introduction, which sketches the life of Marcus Aurelius (emperor of Rome A.D. 161-180) as well as the basic tenets of stoicism, is accessible and jaunty. --H. O'Billovich [via]
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The Meditations of Marcus Aureliusby George LongISBN 038072216X (0-380-72216-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius'Book summary:The insights and knowledge of this famed philosopher and Emperor are just as applicable to situations in today's world as they were in ancient Rome. When The Wall Street Journal asked Bill Clinton to name one book, other than the Bible, that's important to him, Clinton chose Aurelius' Meditations, which he rereads every couple of years. [via]
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My Life As a Fakeby Peter CareyISBN 0375414983 (0-375-41498-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Now I Lay Me Down to Eat: Notes and Footnotes on the Lost Art of Livingby Bernard Rudofsky, Cooper-Hewitt MuseumISBN 0385157150 (0-385-15715-0)
Hardcover, Anchor Books
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Own a Steel Boatby Mike PrattISBN 0370301579 (0-370-30157-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineerby Henry PetroskiISBN 0375718982 (0-375-71898-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer'Book summary:Anyone wondering what sort of experience prepares one for a future as an engineer may be surprised to learn that it includes delivering newspapers. But as Henry Petroski recounts his youth in 1950s Queens, New Yorka borough of handball games and inexplicably numbered streetshe winningly shows how his after-school job amounted to a prep course in practical engineering.
Petroksis paper was The Long Island Press, whose headlines ran to COP SAVES OLD WOMAN FROM THUG and DiMAG SAYS BUMS CANT WIN SERIES. Folding it into a tube suitable for throwing was an exercise in post-Euclidean geometry. Maintaining a Schwinn revealed volumes about mechanics. Reading Paperboy, we also learn about the hazing rituals of its namesakes, the aesthetics of kitchen appliances, and the delicate art of penny-pitching. With gratifying reflections on these and other lessons of a bygone eralessons about diligence, labor, and community-mindednessPaperboy is a piece of Americana to cherish and reread. [via]More editions of Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer:
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The Photoshop Channels Bookby Scott KelbyISBN 0321269063 (0-321-26906-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Photoshop Channels Book'Book summary:One big advantage Photoshop professionals have always had was the understanding of channels. It was their secret weapon, and it enabled them to do things, and work in an entirely different way than their competitors, and maybe that's why the secret power of Photoshop's channels has been such a closely guarded secret. Until now.
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Award-winning, bestselling author Scott Kelby (Editor of Photoshop User magazine) shows you how to unlock the power of Photoshop's Channels and really start using Photoshop like a pro. But this isn't a book of theory and technical explanations, this is a step-by-step project-based book that will teach you exactly how to the pros use channels in their everyday work (Using channels is one of the secrets they use to get twice the work done in half the time).
You'll learn how today's top photographers and graphic designers employ channels to make impossible selections, to speed their production workflow, to color correct images, to mask images, to create stunning color to black and white conversions, and to do dozens of inside tricks that set them apart from the field. There's a reason there's always been a mystique to using channels, and why Photoshop users who understand and use them stay on the cutting edge. Now, their secrets are revealed using the same plain-English style that has made Scott one of the leading Photoshop authors and instructors in the world today.
You'll be amazed at not only what you're able with channels, but you'll love the competitive advantage that using channels will give you. If you're ready to take your Photoshop skills to the next level, you're holding the book that will take you there, and you're gonna love it!More editions of The Photoshop Channels Book:
Photoshop Classic Effectsby Scott KelbyISBN 0321272250 (0-321-27225-0)
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Photoshop Cs2: Up to Speedby Ben WillmoreISBN 0321330501 (0-321-33050-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Photoshop Cs2: Up to Speed'Book summary:As the first major Photoshop update since Adobe revamped its product line in 2003, this is the release you've been waiting for-and this is the guide that will get you up to speed on it fastest! Rather than sift through hundreds of pages detailing every last Photoshop feature and function, you can go directly to the new features that interest you most and get the explanations you desire in classic Ben Willmore style-intuitive, crystal clear, and in-depth. By focusing on a single topic-what's new in this version-the award-winning author provides precisely what experienced Photoshop users like yourself have been clamoring for, in exactly the depth you demand. Including just enough information about older features to make the new ones understandable, Ben shows you not only which buttons to push but why.
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Printing for Pleasureby John RyderISBN 0370104439 (0-370-10443-9)
Hardcover, Oak Knoll Pr
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Publishing A Blog With Blogger: Visual QuickProject Guideby Elizabeth CastroISBN 0321321235 (0-321-32123-5)
Softcover, Peachpit Pr
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Writing in a journal is all well and good, but when you're ready to share your musings with the world (and you think the world is ready to receive them!), a blog is the way to go. For just $12.99, this compact guide shows you how! Using big, bold full-color pictures and streamlined instructions, it covers just the need-to-know essentials that will get you blogging with leading free blog software--Googles Blogger--in a matter of minutes. Best-selling author Elizabeth Castro takes you through each step of the blogging process--from acquainting you with the interface to setting up your blog, creating your profile, posting email, adding pictures and audio, and more. Occasional sidebars and tips point out other useful blogging tips and tricks.More editions of Publishing A Blog With Blogger: Visual QuickProject Guide:
Quilting and Patchworkby Michele WalkerISBN 0345309111 (0-345-30911-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Real World Color Management: Industrial-Strength Production Techniquesby Bruce Fraser, Chris Murphy, Fred BuntingISBN 0321267222 (0-321-26722-2)
Softcover, Peachpit Pr
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Real World Scanning and Halftonesby David Blatner, Glenn Fleishman, Steve Roth, Conrad ChavezISBN 0321241320 (0-321-24132-0)
Softcover, Pearson Technology Group Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Real World Scanning and Halftones'Book summary:This highly useful, detailed guide helps desktop-publishing and other design professionals produce the best possible scans and halftones from their images. The first section focuses on scanning, first featuring explanations of such terms as spi (samples per inch), bit depth, optical and interpolated resolution, and dynamic range. The authors even advise you on buying and cleaning scanners. Next they detail the elements of good scans and how to fix less-than-perfect ones, helping you figure out what sort of file formats and resolutions to use in your work, how to do tonal and color corrections, and how to sharpen and compress images. Finally, the discussion turns to Web and printer output and to OCR technology and PhotoCD images.
The section on halftones teaches you how to produce decent halftone images, first by explaining how halftones work and then by explaining such issues as frequency, gray levels, spot variation, spot gain, spot shapes, and the role of printers and software in creating halftones. There's also a discussion of stochastic screening and how to create blends and reduce moiré and other patterns. The last chapters here help you fine-tune your halftone settings and learn a bit about PostScript operators for halftones and scanning.
The third and last section focuses on using image applications to work with scans, tonal and color corrections, and halftones. This discussion includes Adobe Photoshop, Micrografx Picture Publisher, Corel Photo-Paint, Ulead PhotoImpact, Equilibrium's DeBabelizer, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia FreeHand, CorelDRAW, Adobe PageMaker, and QuarkXPress. The authors also look at a few scanning applications and offer tips on using them.
Throughout the book the authors provide plenty of images and screen shots to illustrate their points, and a full-color section helps bring some of these examples to life. There's lots of technical discussion, but since each chapter builds on the previous ones and the basic terminology is put forth clearly, you can leave off wherever you wish and still have a lot of new knowledge to apply to your scans and halftones. --Kathleen Caster [via]
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Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Designby Scott W. Ambler, Pramod J. Sadalage, John Graham, Martin Fowler, Paul Dorsey, Sachin RekhiISBN 0321293533 (0-321-29353-3)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design'Book summary:Refactoring has proven its value in a wide range of development projects-helping software professionals improve system designs, maintainability, extensibility, and performance. Now, for the first time, leading agile methodologist Scott Ambler and renowned consultant Pramodkumar Sadalage introduce powerful refactoring techniques specifically designed for database systems. Ambler and Sadalage demonstrate how small changes to table structures, data, stored procedures, and triggers can significantly enhance virtually any database design-without changing semantics. You'll learn how to evolve database schemas in step with source code-and become far more effective in projects relying on iterative, agile methodologies. This comprehensive guide and reference helps you overcome the practical obstacles to refactoring real-world databases by covering every fundamental concept underlying database refactoring. Using start-to-finish examples, the authors walk you through refactoring simple standalone database applications as well as sophisticated multi-application scenarios. You'll master every task involved in refactoring database schemas, and discover best practices for deploying refactorings in even the most complex production environments. The second half of this book systematically covers five major categories of database refactorings. You'll learn how to use refactoring to enhance database structure, data quality, and referential integrity; and how to refactor both architectures and methods. This book provides an extensive set of examples built with Oracle and Java and easily adaptable for other languages, such as C#, C++, or VB.NET, and other databases, such as DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, and Sybase. Using this book's techniques and examples, you can reduce waste, rework, risk, and cost-and build database systems capable of evolving smoothly, far into the future. [via]
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A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black-Cast Postersby John Kisch, Edward MappISBN 0374523606 (0-374-52360-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Slipcovers & Bedspreadsby Christine Barnes, Sunset, Maureen Williams Zimmerman, Diane Petrica TapscottISBN 0376015128 (0-376-01512-8)
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Start with a Digital Cameraby John OdamISBN 0321219007 (0-321-21900-7)
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Three Plays: Blood Wedding/Yerma/the House of Bernada Albaby Federico Garcia Lorca, Carmen Zapata, Michael Dewell, Chirstopher MaurerISBN 0374523320 (0-374-52332-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Unending Mystery : A Journey Through Labyrinths and Mazesby David Willis McCulloughISBN 0375423060 (0-375-42306-0)
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The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Webby Steve Mulder, Ziv YaarISBN 0321434536 (0-321-43453-6)
Softcover, New Riders Pub
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Vehicle and Engine Technologyby Heinz HeislerISBN 0340691867 (0-340-69186-7)
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Wind Power for Your Home: The First Complete Guide That Tells How to Make the Wind's Energy Work for Youby George SullivanISBN 034612316X (0-346-12316-X)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Library
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The Wolves In The Wallsby Neil Gaiman, Dave McKeanISBN 0380810956 (0-380-81095-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wolves In The Walls'Book summary:Truth be told, Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's picture book The Wolves in the Walls is terrifying. Sure, the story is fairytale-like and presented in a jaunty, casually nonsensical way, but it is absolutely the stuff of nightmares. Lucy hears wolves hustling, bustling, crinkling, and crackling in the walls of the old house where her family lives, but no one believes her. Her mother says it's mice, her brother says bats, and her father says what everyone seems to say, "If the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over." Lucy remains convinced, as is her beloved pig-puppet, and her worst fears are confirmed when the wolves actually do come out of the walls.
Up to this point, McKean's illustrations are spectacular, sinister collages awash in golden sepia tones evocative of the creepy beauty in The City of Lost Children. The wolves explode into the story in scratchy pen-and-ink, all jaws and eyes. The family flees to the cold, moonlit garden, where they ponder their future. (Her brother suggests, for example, that they escape to outer space where there's "nothing but foozles and squossucks for billions of miles.") Lucy wants to live in her own house...and she wants the pig-puppet she left behind.
Eventually she talks her family into moving back into the once-wolfish walls, where they peek out at the wolves who are watching their television and spilling popcorn on slices of toast and jam, dashing up the stairs, and wearing their clothes. When the family can't stand it anymore, they burst forth from the walls, scaring the wolves, who shout, "And when the people come out of the walls, it's all over!" The wolves flee and everything goes back to normal...until the tidy ending when Lucy hears "a noise that sounded exactly like an elephant trying not to sneeze." Adult fans of this talented pair will revel in the quirky story and its darkly gorgeous, deliciously shadowy trappings, but the young or faint of heart, beware! (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Centuryby Thomas L. FriedmanISBN 0374292795 (0-374-29279-5)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century'Book summary:When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this "flattening" of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?In this brilliant new book, the award-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt. The World Is Flat is the timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists. [via]
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The Zen Of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Lifeby John Daido LooriISBN 0345466330 (0-345-46633-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Zen Of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life'Book summary:For many of us, the return of Zen conjures up images of rock gardens and gently flowing waterfalls. We think of mindfulness and meditation, immersion in a state of being where meaning is found through simplicity. Zen lore has been absorbed by Western practitioners and pop culture alike, yet there is a specific area of this ancient tradition that hasnt been fully explored in the West. Now, in The Zen of Creativity, American Zen master John Daido Loori presents a book that taps the principles of the Zen arts and aesthetic as a means to unlock creativity and find freedom in the various dimensions of our existence. Loori dissolves the barriers between art and spirituality, opening up the possibility of meeting life with spontaneity, grace, and peace.
Zen Buddhism is steeped in the arts. In spiritual ways, calligraphy, poetry, painting, the tea ceremony, and flower arranging can point us toward our essential, boundless nature. Brilliantly interpreting the teachings of the artless arts, Loori illuminates various elements that awaken our creativity, among them still point, the center of each moment that focuses on the tranquility within; simplicity, in which the creative process is uncluttered and unlimited, like a cloudless sky; spontaneity, a way to navigate through life without preconceptions, with a freshness in which everything becomes new; mystery, a sense of trust in the unknown; creative feedback, the systematic use of an audience to receive noncritical input about our art; art koans, exercises based on paradoxical questions that can be resolved only through artistic expression. Loori shows how these elements interpenetrate and function not only in art, but in all our endeavors.
Beautifully illustrated and punctuated with poems and reflections from Looris own spiritual journey, The Zen of Creativity presents a multilayered, bottomless source of insight into our creativity. Appealing equally to spiritual seekers, artists, and veteran Buddhist practitioners, this book is perfect for those wishing to discover new means of self-awareness and expressionand to restore equanimity and freedom amid the vicissitudes of our lives. [via]More editions of The Zen Of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life:
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