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100 Type Historiesby Lawson, Archie ProvanISBN 0318032414 (0-318-03241-4)
Softcover, Natl Composition Assn
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Adobe Type Library Reference Bookby Adobe Systems, Inc. StaffISBN 0321136462 (0-321-13646-2)
Softcover, Adobe Press
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American Wood Type, 1828-1900: Notes on the Evolution of Decorated and Large Types and Comments on Related Trades of the Periodby Rob Roy KellyISBN 0306800594 (0-306-80059-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Ancient Persian Designs in Needlepoint: 27 Color Plates and 57 Graphsby Robert Horace Ross, Marjorie Ross ReinhardtISBN 0312035837 (0-312-03583-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Animation from Script to Screenby Shamus CulhaneISBN 0312050526 (0-312-05052-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Art Decoby Thomas WaltersISBN 0312050755 (0-312-05075-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Art Deco Styleby Yvonne BrunhammerISBN 0312052243 (0-312-05224-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Art of Kitchen Design: Planning for Comfort and Styleby Johnny GreyISBN 0304347493 (0-304-34749-3)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Beyond Engineering: Essays and Other Attempts to Figure Without Equationsby Henry PetroskiISBN 0312077858 (0-312-07785-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Book of Knitting: From Beginner to Expert The Best Knitting Book for Youby Marinella NavaISBN 0312089422 (0-312-08942-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Buckminster Fuller: An Auto-Biographical Monologue/Scenarioby Robert SnyderISBN 0312106785 (0-312-10678-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Cassell's Directory of Courtyard and Patio Plants: Everything You Need to Create a Gardenby Jane Courtier, Lucy HuntingtonISBN 0304356026 (0-304-35602-6)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Celtic Borders and Decorationby Courtney DavisISBN 0304362271 (0-304-36227-1)
Softcover, Cassell P L C
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Celtic Cross Stitch Samplersby Angela WainwrightISBN 0304345822 (0-304-34582-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Celtic Ornament: Art of the Scribeby Courtney DavisISBN 0304359629 (0-304-35962-9)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Chris Ware: Monographicsby DANIEL RAEBURNISBN 0300102917 (0-300-10291-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Civilizing American Cities: Writings on City Landscapesby S.B. Sutton, Frederick Law OlmstedISBN 0306807653 (0-306-80765-3)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civilizing American Cities: Writings on City Landscapes'Book summary:Frederick Law Olmsted (18221903) designed New York City's Central Park, Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Chicago's South Park and Jackson Park, Montreal's Mount Royal Park, the park systems of Boston and Buffalo, and many others. But Olmsted also designed parkways and neighborhoods, reshaping cities around their parks. He thus reinvented the American urban landscape as a democratic outdoor setting that encouraged a new kind of participation in city life. Olmsted was one of the most gifted of American writers of his generation: prior to designing Central Park, he had written five important books, including The Cotton Kingdom (an account of his travels in the slave states), and his writings on American landscapes are unfailingly lively, eloquent, and passionate. Civilizing American Cities collects Olmsted's plans for New York, San Francisco, Buffalo, Montreal, Chicago, and Boston; his suburban plans for Berkeley, California and Riverside, Illinois; and a generous helping of his writings on urban landscape in general. These selections, expertly edited and introduced, are not only enjoyable but essential reading for anyone interested in the historyand the futureof America's cities.[via]More editions of Civilizing American Cities: Writings on City Landscapes:
Color in Decorationby Annie Sloan, Kate GwynnISBN 0316798452 (0-316-79845-2)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Conran's Creative Home Designby David Stevens, Nonie NiesewandISBN 0316607495 (0-316-60749-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Creating Formal Gardensby Roy C. StrongISBN 0316819247 (0-316-81924-7)
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Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romanticby Daniel HarrisISBN 0306810476 (0-306-81047-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Centuryby Harold Koda, Andrew Bolton, Mimi HellmanISBN 0300107145 (0-300-10714-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interactionby Ben Shneiderman, Catherine PlaisantISBN 0321197860 (0-321-19786-0)
Hardcover, Allyn & Bacon
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Designs and Their Consequences: Architecture and Aestheticsby Richard HillISBN 0300079486 (0-300-07948-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Webby Tom Negrino, Dori SmithISBN 0321150716 (0-321-15071-6)
Softcover, Pearson Technology Group Canada
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Consistent with other members of Peachpit's Visual QuickStart Guide series, this title makes wise use of side-by-side explanations and screen shots, as well as code snippets and their analysis. This approach gives readers the feeling that the authors are sitting by their side and showing them how to code scripts. Most subjects are handled with numbered steps, such as "Validating Zip Codes", and useful tips punctuate the text.
The book introduces the whole concept of JavaScript in a fast-moving but readable chapter and then moves into solving real-world challenges. The authors do a good job of covering JavaScript's capabilities, from eye-catching graphics tricks to data-entry form processing and cookie management. Particularly enjoyable is the way the book spells out many of the differences between Netscape and Microsoft dynamic HTML approaches.
The JavaScript object model is laid out in an appendix, along with object compatibility between various browser flavours. To complement the book, the publisher offers a Web site that makes all of the example code easily downloadable for your use. This is a great little guide for both busy coders and JavaScript novices. --Stephen W. Plain [via]
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Dictionary of 20th Century Designby John F. PileISBN 0306805693 (0-306-80569-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Dictionary of Graphic Imagesby Philip Thompson, Peter DavenportISBN 0312201095 (0-312-20109-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Ed Emberley's Great Thumbprint Drawing Bookby Ed EmberleyISBN 0316236683 (0-316-23668-3)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company
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Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsongby Joseph LanzaISBN 0312130635 (0-312-13063-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Embroiderer's Workbookby Jan MessentISBN 0312021216 (0-312-02121-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Extending Acrobat Forms with JavaScriptby John DeubertISBN 0321172388 (0-321-17238-8)
Softcover, Adobe Press
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Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Nowby Valerie SteeleISBN 0300087381 (0-300-08738-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now'Book summary:From haute couture to hot pants, from glamour to grunge, the past 50 years have witnessed some revolutions in fashion. This survey of postwar fashion not only describes the great designers and their creations but also places trends in clothing within their social and cultural contexts. Valerie Steele begins by discussing the impact of World War II on the international fashion system, explaining, for example, how the success of Christian Dior's "new look" was the result of sweeping social and economic changes that included a shift from the atelier to the global corporate conglomerate. In the 1950s Steele argues, developments in the world of fashion were influenced by sexual politics and the anxieties associated with the Cold War: social conformity and gender stereotypes led to such phenomena as "wife dressing" and "the man in the grey flannel suit". Steele traces fashion revolution of the 1960s, which smashed both social and sartorial rules as "swinging London" inaugurated its own new dictatorship of youth. She describes the rise of the women's movement and the hippies' anti fashion sentiment, which ushered a new freedom of choice in the 1970s, "the decade that taste forgot". She finds that the 1980s, often described as "the decade of greed", was actually a more complicated period, during which Calvin Klein jeans as well as suits by Armani became yuppie status symbols. An she shows that the fashion of the 1990s, emphatically postmodernist, have repeatedly returned to the themes of retro, ethno and techno styles. [via]
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Five Hundred Years of Book Designby Alan BartramISBN 0300090587 (0-300-09058-7)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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For Your Garden: Arbors and Trellisesby Warren SchultzISBN 0316775967 (0-316-77596-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Form Follows Fiasco: Why Modern Architecture Hasn't Workedby Peter BlakeISBN 0316099392 (0-316-09939-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Fundamentals of Database Systems/oracle 9i Programmingby Ramez Elmasri, Sham NavatheISBN 0321122267 (0-321-12226-7)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Futurist Typography And the Liberated Textby Alan BartramISBN 030011432X (0-300-11432-X)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Garden Styleby Penelope HobhouseISBN 0316367508 (0-316-36750-8)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyllby Richard BisgroveISBN 0316096571 (0-316-09657-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age : Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collectionby Deborah Rothschild, Ellen Lupton, Darra GoldsteinISBN 0300074948 (0-300-07494-8)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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Great Architecture of the Worldby John Julius NorwichISBN 0306804360 (0-306-80436-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Heart of the Artist: A Character-Building Guide for You and Your Ministry Teamby Rory NolandISBN 0310224713 (0-310-22471-3)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Household Gods: The British And Their Possessionsby Deborah CohenISBN 0300112130 (0-300-11213-0)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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How to Draw Celtic Knotwork: A Practical Handbookby Andy SlossISBN 0304361259 (0-304-36125-9)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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How to See: Visual Adventures in a World God Never Madeby George NelsonISBN 0316603112 (0-316-60311-2)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Html for the World Wide Web Visual Quickstart Guide: With Xhtml and Cssby Elizabeth CastroISBN 0321130073 (0-321-13007-3)
Softcover, Peachpit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Html for the World Wide Web Visual Quickstart Guide: With Xhtml and Css'Book summary:It's important for anyone who creates Web sites--even those who rely on powerful editors like Dreamweaver or GoLive--to know HTML. The World Wide Web Consortium rewrote HTML as a subset of XML (dubbing it "XHTML 1.0") and the allowable code will eventually be stricter. Tags that are being phased out are labeled "deprecated"--current browsers can still handle them, but if you want your site to keep up with future browsers, not to mention conform to accessibility requirements, you will want to get on top of XHTML.
Of course, Elizabeth Castro manages to write books that not only speak to those who are already fluent in HTML, but are good for newbies too. She makes it a breeze to create sites that are visually stylish and technically sophisticated without the expense of buying an editor.
Among the topics covered in her new book, HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: using the (relatively newer) structural tags (like doctype and div); correctly using older tags (like p and img) that have been modified in XHTML; writing XHTML so that formatting is done by the style sheets; writing those style sheets (cascading style sheets, a.k.a. "CSS"); creating a variety of layouts; and dealing with tables, frames, forms, multimedia, a bit of JavaScript (including mouseovers), WML (for mobile device displays), debugging, publishing, and publicizing your site.
As with all Visual QuickStart Guides, this one features clear and concise instructions side by side with well-captioned illustrations and screen shots that show both the source code and the resulting effect on the Web page. The index is extremely detailed, making this a great reference.
Also great for reference are the outstanding appendices. The first is an extensive list of tags and attributes, indicating which are deprecated and/or proprietary and on which page they are discussed. A similar appendix shows CSS properties and values; given the future of Web coding, this chart alone is worth the price of the book. Other handy charts cover intrinsic events, symbols and character Unicodes, and an expanded color chart that goes way beyond the virtually archaic Web-safe palette. All of which makes this a definite must-have for every Web designer's bookshelf. --Angelynn Grant [via]
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Html for the World Wide Web With Xhtml and Css Visual Quickstart Guideby Elizabeth CastroISBN 0321150686 (0-321-15068-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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This updated edition includes a new section on foreign-language and multilingual Web sites as well as ample coverage on how the use of HTML is changing. What hasn't changed, however, is the book's popular format: Task-oriented, step-by-step instruction that builds on your growing knowledge. Info-packed appendixes, a comprehensive index, and plenty of screen shots and code examples make HTML for the World Wide Web, Fifth Edition, with XHTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide a must-have reference. Whether you're just getting your feet wet (no prior HTML knowledge is required) or design Web sites for a living, you'll turn to this best-selling guide again and again for answers to all of your HTML-related questions.
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The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Societyby Norbert WienerISBN 0306803208 (0-306-80320-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Javascript for the World Wide Web Visual Quickstart Guide: Visual Quickstart Guideby Tom Negrino, Dori SmithISBN 032119439X (0-321-19439-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall Ptr
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Labyrinths: Ancient Paths of Wisdom and Peaceby Virdinia Westbury, Cindy A. PavlinacISBN 0306813106 (0-306-81310-6)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Law As Architecture: Building Legal Documentsby RamsfieldISBN 0314223800 (0-314-22380-0)
Softcover, West Group
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Livable Modernism: Interior Decorating and Design During the Great Depressionby Kristina WilsonISBN 0300104758 (0-300-10475-8)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Macromedia ColdFusion MX Development with Dreamweaver MXby Neil Robertson Clark, Susan Hove, Ben Forta, Marc A. GarrettISBN 0321158024 (0-321-15802-4)
Softcover, Peachpit Press
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Martha's Vineyard: Houses and Gardensby Polly Burroughs, Lisl DennisISBN 0316180831 (0-316-18083-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Mason-Dixon Knitting: The Curious Knitters' Guide Stories, Patterns, Advice, Opinions, Questions, Answers, Jokes, And Picturesby Sue Daley, Steve Gross, Kay Gardiner, Ann ShayneISBN 0307236056 (0-307-23605-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Mason-Dixon Knitting is a collection of unbelievable patterns, a how-to manual, and a crazy quilt of hilarious narrative, all in one. In this book, Kay and Ann chitchat their way through a series of more than thirty incredible patterns. Drawing creative inspiration from their surroundings, they present colorful blankets, sassy nightgowns, a delicate curtain, and much more to reveal that knitting can weave its way into just about every aspect of life. Most of these projects are the epitome of ease, but you can make them as simple or complicated as you prefer.
Kay and Ann invite you to use your creative vision to interpret each pattern and give it your own personal touch. Full-color photography of these delightful home- and family-inspired knits accompanies each project. Along the way, Kay and Ann will introduce you to incredible knitting personalities, share their own knitting experiences, and present eye-popping knitting phenomena. Mason-Dixon Knitting explores the humor, fun, and outrageous possibilities of a realm in which knitting is much more than a craftits a lifestyle.
Inspiration, Guidance, and 30 Projects to Knit
Featuring: Technical hints; Great (knitted) things you will do; How to cope with disaster; Must-knit tv; Mistakes you will definitely make; Knitting for the common good; Knitting something that looks like something else [via]More editions of Mason-Dixon Knitting: The Curious Knitters' Guide Stories, Patterns, Advice, Opinions, Questions, Answers, Jokes, And Pictures:
Materials, Form and Architectureby Richard WestonISBN 0300095791 (0-300-09579-1)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Modernism in American Silver: 20th-century Designby Stern Jewel, Charles L. Venable, Kevin W. TuckerISBN 030010927X (0-300-10927-X)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Moholy-Nagy: An Anthologyby Richard KostelanetzISBN 0306804557 (0-306-80455-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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New Dimensions: The Decorative Arts of Today in Words and Picturesby Paul T. Frankl, Frank Lloyd WrightISBN 0306707411 (0-306-70741-1)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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New Typographic Designby Roger Fawcett-TangISBN 0300117752 (0-300-11775-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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On Book Designby Richard HendelISBN 0300075707 (0-300-07570-7)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Book Design'Book summary:How is a book designed? What do book designers think about as they turn mansucripts into printed books? In this volume the book designer Richard Hendel and other book designers discuss their approaches and working methods. They consider the problems posed by a wide range of projects - selection of book's size and shape, choice of typeface for text and display, arrangement of type on the page, and determination of typographic details for all parts of the book within manufacturing and buget limitations. As omnipresent as books are, few readers are aware of the "invisible" craft of book designing. The task of a book designer faces is different from that faced by other designers. The challenge, says Hendel isn't to create something different or pretty or clever but to discover how best to serve the author's words. Hendel does not epouse a single philosophy of design or a set of instructions; he shows that there are many ways to design a book. In detailed descriptions of the creative process, Hendel and the eight other designers show how they achieve the most effective visual presentation of words, offering many examples to illustrate their choices. [via]
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Out of the Ordinary: Architecture/Urbanism/Designby Kathryn B. Hiesinger, David G. De Long, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Heinz Architectural Center, Robert Venturi, David Bruce Brownlee, Denise Scott BrownISBN 0300089953 (0-300-08995-3)
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Paper Projects for Creative Kids of All Agesby Jim BottomleyISBN 0316103497 (0-316-10349-7)
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Patterns in Natureby Peter S. StevensISBN 0316813311 (0-316-81331-1)
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Period Style: The Complete Guide to Restoring Period Homesby Mary GilliatISBN 0316313947 (0-316-31394-7)
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Plans for Small Gardensby Geoffrey K. CoombsISBN 0304320021 (0-304-32002-1)
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A Pound Of Paper: Confessions Of A Book Addictby John BaxterISBN 0312317263 (0-312-31726-3)
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Rethinking Systems Analysis and Designby Gerald M. WeinbergISBN 0316928445 (0-316-92844-5)
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Scandinavian Painted Decorby Jocasta InnesISBN 0304345687 (0-304-34568-7)
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The Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin: With Catalogue Raisonneby Susan Weber Soros, E. W. GodwinISBN 0300081596 (0-300-08159-6)
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Shocking: The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelliby Dilys E. BlumISBN 0300100663 (0-300-10066-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shocking: The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli'Book summary:If you're a fashionista who's not a babe, you look for clothes that create attention all by themselves. That was the secret of Elsa Schiaparelli, the Italian designer who gave women unusual textures, eccentric patterns and surprising shapes influenced by the Surrealist artists in her circle. In Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli--a winking reference to her most famous perfume as well as to her designing audacity--Dilys E. Blum celebrates the couturiere whose achievements have long been eclipsed by her rival, Coco Chanel. A frustrated sculptor, Schiaparelli invested many of her garments of the 1930s and '40s with an architectural quality, from aerodynamic, back-swept bustles and overskirts dramatically curved back over themselves to stiff, fan-shaped peplums. She created a hat in the shape of an upside-down shoe, made comfy leopard-skin booties, and incorporated such novelties as monkey fur and Rhodophane, a transparent man-made fabric. Her clothes were worn by Mae West and heiress Millicent Rogers, by Helena Rubenstein and French film star Arletty. At her most eccentric, inspired by the artist Man Ray, Schiaparelli produced suede gloves with red snakeskin fingernails. At her most practical, she designed a daring (in 1931) silk tennis costume with a divided skirt. More than 300 stunning photographs, both vintage and contemporary, and a detailed yet lively text made this book a must for anyone interested in the history of fashion. A coordinated exhibition of the same title is at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, through Jan. 4, 2004, before traveling to Paris. --Cathy Curtis [via]
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Shortcuts to Great Gardensby Nigel ColbornISBN 0316150525 (0-316-15052-5)
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Software Systems Architecture: Working with Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectivesby Not Available, Eoin WoodsISBN 0321112296 (0-321-11229-6)
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Start With a Digital Camera: The Indispensable Guide to Getting the Most Out of Your Digital Cameraby John OdamISBN 0321130111 (0-321-13011-1)
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Structures: Or, Why Things Don't Fall Downby J. E. GordonISBN 0306812835 (0-306-81283-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Structures: Or Why Things Dont Fall Down'Book summary:For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges dont collapse under eight lanes of traffic, how dams hold backor give way underthousands of gallons of water, or what principles guide the design of a skyscraper, a nightgown, or a kangaroo, this book will ease your anxiety and answer your questions. Structures: Or Why Things Dont Fall Down is an informal explanation of the basic forces that hold together the ordinary and essential things of this worldfrom buildings and bodies to flying aircraft and eggshells. In a style that combines wit, a masterful command of his subject, and an encyclopedic range of reference, J. E. Gordon strips engineering of its technical mathematics and communicates the theory behind the structures of a wide variety of materials.Chapters on How to Design a Worm and The Advantage of Being a Beam offer humorous insights into human and natural creation. For architects and engineers there are cogent explanations of the concepts of stress, shear, torsion, fracture, and compression, and chapters on safety design and the relationship of efficiency to aesthetics. If you are building a house, a sailboat, or a catapult, here is a handy tool for understanding the mechanics of joinery, floors, ceilings, hulls, mastsor flying buttresses. Without jargon or over-simplification, Structures surveys the nature of materials and gives sophisticated answers to the most naive questions, opening up the marvels of technology to anyone interested in the foundations of our everyday lives.[via]More editions of Structures: Or, Why Things Don't Fall Down:
Style and Designby David HicksISBN 0316360708 (0-316-36070-8)
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Tastemakersby Russell LynesISBN 031323843X (0-313-23843-X)
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Thinking in Pictures: The Making of the Movie Matewanby John SaylesISBN 0306812665 (0-306-81266-5)
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Thomas Jeckyll: Architect and Designer, 1827-1881by Susan Weber Soros, Catherine Arbuthnott, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and CultureISBN 0300099223 (0-300-09922-3)
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User Interface Design: A Software Engineering Perspectiveby Soren LauesenISBN 0321181433 (0-321-18143-3)
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User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Developmentby Mike CohnISBN 0321205685 (0-321-20568-5)
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Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century Londonby Lynda NeadISBN 0300107706 (0-300-10770-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Victorian Babylon: People, Streets And Images In Nineteenth-century London'Book summary:In this fascinating and innovative look at nineteenth-century London, Lynda Nead offers a new account of modernity and metropolitan life. She charts the relationship between London's formation into a modern organized city in the 1860s and the emergence of new types of production and consumption of visual culture. She considers the role visual images played in the creation of a vibrant and diverse urban culture and how new kinds of publics were created for these representations. Shifting the focus of the history of modernity from Paris to London, Nead here argues for a different understanding of gender and public space in a society where women joined the everyday life of city streets and entered the debates concerning morality, spectacle, and adventure.
The book draws on texts and images of many kinds -- including acts of Parliament, literature, newspaper reports, private letters, maps, paintings, advertisements, posters, and banned obscene publications. Taking a highly interdisciplinary approach, Nead explores such intriguing topics as the efforts of urban improvers to move water, air, traffic, goods, and people in the Victorian metropolis; the impact of gas lighting and glass on urban leisure; and the obscenity legislation that emerged in response to new forms of visual mass culture that were perceived as dangerous and pervasive. [via]
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The Web Wizard's Guide to Xhtmlby Cheryl M. HughesISBN 0321178688 (0-321-17868-8)
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Women Designers in the USA 1900-2000: Diversity and Differenceby Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Pat KirkhamISBN 0300087349 (0-300-08734-9)
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The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Centuryby Thomas L. FriedmanISBN 0312425074 (0-312-42507-4)
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie Warby Max BrooksISBN 0307346617 (0-307-34661-7)
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The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.
Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.
Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, By excluding the human factor, arent we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isnt the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as the living dead?
Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.
Eyewitness reports from the first truly global war
I found Patient Zero behind the locked door of an abandoned apartment across town. . . . His wrists and feet were bound with plastic packing twine. Although hed rubbed off the skin around his bonds, there was no blood. There was also no blood on his other wounds. . . . He was writhing like an animal; a gag muffled his growls. At first the villagers tried to hold me back. They warned me not to touch him, that he was cursed. I shrugged them off and reached for my mask and gloves. The boys skin was . . . cold and gray . . . I could find neither his heartbeat nor his pulse. Dr. Kwang Jingshu, Greater Chongqing, United Federation of China
Shock and Awe? Perfect name. . . . But what if the enemy cant be shocked and awed? Not just wont, but biologically cant! Thats what happened that day outside New York City, thats the failure that almost lost us the whole damn war. The fact that we couldnt shock and awe Zack boomeranged right back in our faces and actually allowed Zack to shock and awe us! Theyre not afraid! No matter what we do, no matter how many we kill, they will never, ever be afraid! Todd Wainio, former U.S. Army infantryman and veteran of the Battle of Yonkers
Two hundred million zombies. Who can even visualize that type of number, let alone combat it? . . . For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming all life on Earth. General Travis DAmbrosia, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe [via]More editions of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War:
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The Written Image: Japanses Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collectionby Miyeko Murase, Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, Karen L. BrockISBN 0300096895 (0-300-09689-5)
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