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The Advanced Internet Searcher's Handbookby Phil BradleyISBN 1856045234 (1-85604-523-4)
Softcover, Library Assn Pub Ltd
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The Aesthetics of Disappearanceby Paul Virilio, Philip BeitchmanISBN 1570270414 (1-57027-041-4)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism Where All of Life Is a Paid-For Experienceby Jeremy RifkinISBN 1585420824 (1-58542-082-4)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism Where All of Life Is a Paid-For Experience'Book summary:He's been called the postmodern Chicken Licken, but it so happens that the sky really is falling down. Jeremy Rifkin pulls the plug on the trend away from property ownership and free public life in The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where All of Life is a Paid-For Experience. As usual, he's a bit ahead of the curve--most of us aren't yet fully immersed in the sea of leased products and packaged experiences that he sees awaiting us. Still, his eerie visions of a world of gatekeepers paying each other for access to nearly every aspect of human life brings a chilling new meaning to the phrase "pay to play" and should spark some debate over our new cultural revolution.
Using examples from business and government experiments with just-in-time access to goods and services and resource sharing, Rifkin defines a new society of renters too busy breaking the shackles of material possessions to mourn the passing of public property. Are we encouraging alienation or participation? Can we trust corporations with stewardship of our social lives? True to form, the author asks more questions than he answers--a sign of an open mind. If property is theft, leased access is extortion, and The Age of Access warns us of the complex changes coming in our relationships with our homes, our communities, and our world. --Rob Lightner, Amazon.com [via]
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Arranging & Describing Archives & Manuscriptsby Kathleen RoeISBN 193166613X (1-931666-13-X)
Softcover, Society of Amer Archivists
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arranging & Describing Archives & Manuscripts'Book summary:Arranging & Describing Archives & Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series II) [via]
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Being on Line Net Subjectivityby Alan Sondheim, Martim Avillez, Saul Ostrow, Heinz Insu Fenkl, Carole Ashley, Cody Choi, Wlater Lew, Michael D. ShinISBN 1882791045 (1-882791-04-5)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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The Book of Totally Useless Informationby Donald VoorheesISBN 1567312667 (1-56731-266-7)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Totally Useless Information'Book summary:Here is enough useless information for everyone. In "The Book of Totally Useless Information", Don Voorhees has compiled over two hundred explanations for the not-so-important questions in life.
Why is the sky blue?
Why does orange juice taste funny after you brush your teeth?
Why is a left-handed pitcher known as a "Southpaw"?
Why is the National Hockey League Championship Trophy called the Stanley Cup?
When did it first become offensive to extend the middle finger?
Why are diamonds measured in carats?
What makes stainless steel stainless?
Why does a Mexican Jumping Bean jump?
Why do spokes on wagon wheels appear to move backward on television or movie screens?
What is a best boy, a key grip, and a gaffer?
Chockful of fascinating trivial facts and anecdotes, "The Book of Totally Useless Information" will entertain readers of all ages. Illustrated throughout, this useful book will satisfy the curiosity of everyone who wonders why. [via]
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The Cannabis Grow Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing Marijuana for Recreational and Medical Useby Greg GreenISBN 1931160171 (1-931160-17-1)
Softcover, Green Candy Pr
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Catechism of the Catholic Churchby Catholic ChurchISBN 1574551094 (1-57455-109-4)
Hardcover, United States Catholic Conference
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catechism of the Catholic Church: Revised in Accordance With the Official Latin Text Promulgated by Pope John Paul II'Book summary:Catechism of the Catholic Church is the first new edition of the catechism in 400 years. Catechism means "instruction," and this text will remain the standard reference for Catholics for many future generations. It is the authoritative summary of Catholic belief regarding the Church creeds, sacraments, commandments, and prayers. To get some idea of the level of detail with which the Catechism engages Catholic doctrine, consider that 17 pages of explanation accompany the opening words of the Apostle's Creed ("I Believe in God the Father"). The book is exceptionally well organized, with line-by-line explanations of every conceivable aspect of orthodox Catholic belief. Extensive cross-referencing, indexing, footnotes, and "In Brief" summaries of each section further ease the project of finding the precise answers to any questions a reader might have. Even the layout of information on the page is easy on the eyes, with wide margins for readers who wish to make notes. Furthermore, the back cover features a true rarity in the annals of world literature: a blurb by the Pope. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionaryby Eric S. RaymondISBN 1565927249 (1-56592-724-9)
Hardcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary'Book summary:It may be foolish to consider Eric Raymond's recent collection of essays, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, the most important computer programming thinking to follow the Internet revolution. But it would be more unfortunate to overlook the implications and long-term benefits of his fastidious description of open-source software development considering the growing dependence businesses and economies have on emerging computer technologies.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar takes its title from an essay Raymond read at the 1997 Linux Kongress. The essay documents Raymond's acquisition, re-creation, and numerous revisions of an e-mail utility known as fetchmail. Raymond engagingly narrates the fetchmail development process while elaborating on the ongoing bazaar development method he uses with the help of volunteer programmers. The essay smartly spares the reader from the technical morass that could easily detract from the text's goal of demonstrating the efficacy of the open-source, or bazaar, method in creating robust, usable software.
Once Raymond has established the components and players necessary for an optimally running open-source model, he sets out to counter the conventional wisdom of private, closed-source software development. Like superbly written code, the author's arguments systematically anticipate their rebuttals. For programmers who "worry that the transition to open source will abolish or devalue their jobs," Raymond adeptly and factually counters that "most developer's salaries don't depend on software sale value." Raymond's uncanny ability to convince is as unrestrained as his capacity for extrapolating upon the promise of open-source development.
In addition to outlining the open-source methodology and its benefits, Raymond also sets out to salvage the hacker moniker from the nefarious connotations typically associated with it in his essay, "A Brief History of Hackerdom" (not surprisingly, he is also the compiler of The New Hacker's Dictionary). Recasting hackerdom in a more positive light may be a heroic undertaking in itself, but considering the Herculean efforts and perfectionist motivations of Raymond and his fellow open-source developers, that light will shine brightly. --Ryan Kuykendall [via]
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Censorship and First Amendment Rights: A Primerby Thelma AdamsISBN 1879556057 (1-879556-05-7)
Softcover, Amer Booksellers Foundation for
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The Complete Book of U.S. Presidentsby William A. DegregorioISBN 1569802084 (1-56980-208-4)
Softcover, Natl Book Network
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The Complete Internet Handbook for Lawyersby Jerry LawsonISBN 1570736405 (1-57073-640-5)
Softcover, Amer Bar Assn
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The Control Revolution: How the Internet Is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Knowby Andrew L. ShapiroISBN 189162086X (1-891620-86-X)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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Copy Fights: The Future of Intellectual Property in the Information Ageby Wayne Crews, Adam ThiererISBN 1930865244 (1-930865-24-4)
Softcover, Cato Inst
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D Is for Democracy: A Citizen's Alphabetby Elissa Grodin, Victor JuhaszISBN 1585362344 (1-58536-234-4)
Hardcover, Sleeping Bear Pr
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The Death of Discourseby Ronald K. L. Collins, David M. SkoverISBN 1594600295 (1-59460-029-5)
Softcover, Carolina Academic Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death of Discourse'Book summary:This book explores one of the most disturbing intellectual dilemmas of our time -- that our beloved First Amendment is being exploited in the name of the dumbing of America. It is the first book to examine the popular culture of the First Amendment, specifically with reference to television, advertising, and pornography. Comparing the culture of popular discourse with traditional First Amendment ideals, the authors expose the vast gap between our speech practices and our speech principles. Is the tyranny of the trivialization of discourse a problem? In a dialogue-like way, the authors invite their readers to judge. [via]
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Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approachby David Benyon, Alan J. Munro, Kristina HookISBN 1852336617 (1-85233-661-7)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
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Developing Library and Information Center Collectionsby G. Edward EvansISBN 1563081873 (1-56308-187-3)
Softcover, Libraries Unlimited Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Developing Library and Information Center Collections'Book summary:This new work addresses the challenges of electronic publishing and puts issues of collection development into perspective, providing a broad understanding of the collection development process. The book covers all phases of collection development-from needs assessment, policies, and the selection process (theory and practice) to publishers, serials, protection, legal issues, and censorship and intellectual freedom.
This work addresses the challenges of electronic publishing and puts issues of collection development into perspective, providing students and practitioners of library and information science with a broad understanding of the collection development process. The book covers all phases of collection development-from needs assessment, policies, and the selection process (theory and practice) to publishers, serials, protection, legal issues, and censorship and intellectual freedom. Each chapter has been expanded and updated with new material and reading lists. In addition, a chapter that is new to this edition deals with e-serials; and two appendixes contain samples of policies related to electronic concerns. It is an excellent survey of the state of the art of collection development and a comprehensive text.
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Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Unionby Scott ShaneISBN 1566630991 (1-56663-099-1)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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Electronic Civil Disobedience & Other Unpopular Ideasby Critical Art Ensemble StaffISBN 1570270562 (1-57027-056-2)
Softcover, Autonomedia
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Epilepsy And Pregnancy: What Every Woman with Epilepsy Should Knowby Stacey Chillemi, Blanca VazquezISBN 1932603158 (1-932603-15-8)
Softcover, Demos Medical Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Epilepsy And Pregnancy: What Every Woman with Epilepsy Should Know'Book summary:Approximately 2.5 million people in the U.S. suffer from epilepsy; of these, more than one million are women of child-bearing age. With concerns about everything from medication-related birth defects to falls during seizures, many of these women are fearful of having children. The good news is that, with proper prenatal care, more than 90% will deliver healthy babies.
Epilepsy and Pregnancy gives readers the basic facts they need to help them make medical decisions throughout preconception, pregnancy, labor, delivery, and the early days after childbirth. Topics include preconception, fertility, pregnancy risks, risks to the fetus, nutrition, keeping fit, what to expect during pregnancy, fetal development, and labor and delivery.
In addition, the book includes guidelines for the use of antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy, recommendations and questions to ask their neurologist, recommended daily allowances by age group, glossary, and much more. Epilepsy and Pregnancy is an essential guide for any woman who suffers from epilepsy and desires to have a child. [via]
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Essential Catalogingby John H. BowmanISBN 1856044564 (1-85604-456-4)
Softcover, Neal Schuman Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essential Cataloging'Book summary:Cataloguing has always been important but hardly any library schools teach it, leaving many students and information professionals to learn on their own. This book covers descriptive cataloguing and is designed as a simple companion to "AACR2". The author believes that most items can be dealt with by using comparatively few of the rules, and that many of the more abtruse ones can be ignored until you need them. This book therefore concentrates on the basics. It has a clear, informal approach, with less important aspects set in smaller type, and is fully cross-referenced to "AACR2", taking into account the 2002 revisions. Concentrating on the materials most Anglo-American libraries are most likely to meet, it includes MARC21 coding and examples, and is designed for library school students, beginning cataloguers and information professionals who need to revise cataloguing skills. [via]
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Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today's Pop Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarterby Steven JohnsonISBN 1594481946 (1-59448-194-6)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter'Book summary:In his fourth book, Everything Bad Is Good for You, iconoclastic science writer Steven Johnson (who used himself as a test subject for the latest neurological technology in his last book, Mind Wide Open) takes on one of the most widely held preconceptions of the postmodern world--the belief that video games, television shows, and other forms of popular entertainment are detrimental to Americans' cognitive and moral development. Everything Good builds a case to the contrary that is engaging, thorough, and ultimately convincing.
The heart of Johnson's argument is something called the Sleeper Curve--a universe of popular entertainment that trends, intellectually speaking, ever upward, so that today's pop-culture consumer has to do more "cognitive work"--making snap decisions and coming up with long-term strategies in role-playing video games, for example, or mastering new virtual environments on the Internet-- than ever before. Johnson makes a compelling case that even today's least nutritional TV junk foodthe Joe Millionaires and Survivors so commonly derided as evidence of America's cultural decline--is more complex and stimulating, in terms of plot complexity and the amount of external information viewers need to understand them, than the Love Boats and I Love Lucys that preceded it. When it comes to television, even (perhaps especially) crappy television, Johnson argues, "the content is less interesting than the cognitive work the show elicits from your mind."
Johnson's work has been controversial, as befits a writer willing to challenge wisdom so conventional it has ossified into accepted truth. But even the most skeptical readers should be captivated by the intriguing questions Johnson raises, whether or not they choose to accept his answers. --Erica C. Barnett [via]More editions of Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today's Pop Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter:
Fishby Mark EvansISBN 1564582221 (1-56458-222-1)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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Flowersby David BurnieISBN 1875137750 (1-875137-75-0)
Softcover, Weldon Owen
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flowers'Book summary:A garden that flowers all year round is an endless source of pleasure. This book shares with you all the tips and techniques you need to create that joy in your own yard, season after season. [via]
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Forms Folds and Sizes: All the Details You Can Never Find but Need to Knowby Poppy EvansISBN 1592530540 (1-59253-054-0)
Softcover, Quayside Pub Group
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Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock down Culture and Control Creativityby Lawrence LessigISBN 1594200068 (1-59420-006-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock down Culture and Control Creativity'Book summary:From "the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era" ("The New Yorker"), a landmark manifesto about the genuine closing of the American mind.
Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America's most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In his two previous books, Code and The Future of Ideas, Lessig concentrated on the destruction of much of the original promise of the Internet. Now, in Free Culture, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas. In this powerful wake-up call he shows how short-sighted interests blind to the long-term damage they're inflicting are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation.
All creative works-books, movies, records, software, and so on-are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible-technologically and legally. For more than two hundred years, laws in America have sought a balance between rewarding creativity and allowing the borrowing from which new creativity springs. The original term of copyright set by the Constitution in 1787 was seventeen years. Now it is closer to two hundred. Thomas Jefferson considered protecting the public against overly long monopolies on creative works an essential government role. What did he know that we've forgotten?
Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can't do with culture. As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, even as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What's at stake is our freedom-freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine. [via]More editions of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock down Culture and Control Creativity:
Get Your Own Damn Beer, I'm Watching the Game!: A Woman's Guide to Loving Pro Footballby Daniel Paisner, Marcus Allen, Holly Robinson Peete, Ronnie LottISBN 1594861633 (1-59486-163-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Great American Bathroom Bookby Steve AndersonISBN 1880184044 (1-880184-04-4)
Softcover, Scarab Book Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great American Bathroom Book'Book summary:If you love Jeopardy you will love this book. [via]
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Guinea Pigsby Mark EvansISBN 156458125X (1-56458-125-X)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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Find out how to prepare your guinea pigs' hutch, and playing with your guinea pigs, indoors and outdoors. Learn what to feed your guinea pigs, and when, and how to keep your guinea pigs happy and healthy. Guinea Pigs is one of an exciting new series of pet care books designed to help young animal owners learn about and care for their pets. Illustrated on every page with full-color photography, Guinea Pigs is packed with practical information on every aspect of feline care. Published in association with the ASPCA, this series will engage and inform readers ages seven and up. [via]
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The Handy Science Answer Book: Revised & Expandedby James E. Bobick, Naomi E. BalabanISBN 1578591406 (1-57859-140-6)
Softcover, Visible Ink Pr
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Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-based Managementby Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. SuttonISBN 1591398622 (1-59139-862-2)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Information Architectsby Richard Saul WurmanISBN 1888001380 (1-888001-38-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Information Architects'Book summary:Frankly, I have found most books about graphics in the information age to be riddled with hyperbole, poorly designed, and vastly overpriced. After looking at many of these books, I typically pull out my dog-eared copy of Edward Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information to clear my visual and conceptual palettes. However, Information Architects, edited by Richard Saul Wurman with contributions by 20 masters in the visual display of information deserves to be on the same shelf as Tufte's masterpieces. Nor does this book shout a simplistic "Cyberspace über alles!": there's great material in here about the importance of informational design in physical spaces and virtual interfaces, and train tracks and track balls. Very highly recommended. [via]
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Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction: Applying Research to Practice in the School Library Media Centerby Nancy Pickering Thomas, Paula Kay MontgomeryISBN 1591580811 (1-59158-081-1)
Softcover, Libraries Unltd Inc
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Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital Ageby Heting ChuISBN 1573871729 (1-57387-172-9)
Hardcover, Information Today Inc
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The Information Society: A Study of Continuity and Changeby John FeatherISBN 1856042693 (1-85604-269-3)
Softcover, Library Assn Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Information Society: A Study of Continuity and Change'Book summary:What is information? Who are the information rich and who are the information poor? How can there be equality of access for users in the light of the economic and cultural pressures that are placed upon information gatherers and keepers? Set against a broad historical backdrop, The Information Society explores the information revolution that continues to gather pace. The commercial value of information becomes increasingly important in a world where data can be transmitted in a split second. Information can become a political tool that can be abused as easily as it can be used. In analysing the different threads that make up the information society, John Feather looks at the ethics of information transfer in the context of the social relationship between the citizen and the state. This questioning, open-minded look at the information profession and its break-out from the traditional boundaries of librarianship will interest all information professionals. It is also invaluable for students on courses in information, librarianship and communications studies, where an understanding of the nature of the information society is an essential underpinning of more advanced work. [via]
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Intellectual Property Storiesby Jane C. Ginsburg, Rochelle Cooper DreyfussISBN 158778727X (1-58778-727-X)
Softcover, West Group
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Introduction to Modern Information Retrievalby G. G. ChowdhuryISBN 1856044807 (1-85604-480-7)
Softcover, Library Assn Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval'Book summary:Accepting that information professionals need to learn both traditional and computerized information retrieval techniques, this book aims to provide students with a comprehensive view of information retrieval. It covers: classification, cataloguing, subject indexing, abstracting and vocabulary control; CD-ROM and online information retrieval, multimedia; hypertext and hypermedia; expert systems and natural language processing techniques; knowledge-based natural language, text processing and user interface systems; and information retrieval in the context of the Internet, the World Wide Web, and the digital library environment. [via]
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The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Actionby Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. SuttonISBN 1578511240 (1-57851-124-0)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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The Lawyer's Guide to the Internetby G. Burgess AllisonISBN 1570731497 (1-57073-149-7)
Softcover, Amer Bar Assn
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Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic Worldby Margaret J. WheatleyISBN 1576753441 (1-57675-344-1)
Softcover, Ingram Pub Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leadership And the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World'Book summary:When Margaret J. Wheatley's Leadership and the New Science was initially published in 1992, it outlined an unquestionably unique but extremely challenging view of change, leadership, and the structure of groups. Many readers immediately embraced its cutting-edge perspective, but others just could not understand how the complicated scientific tenets it described could be used to reshape institutions. Now Wheatley, an organizational specialist who has since coauthored A Simpler Way, updates the original by including additional material (such as an epilogue addressing her personal experiences during the past decade) and reconstructing some of her more challenging concepts. The result is a much clearer work that first explores the implications of quantum physics on organizational practice, then investigates ways that biology and chemistry affect living systems, and finally focuses on chaos theory, the creation of a new order, and the manner that scientific principles affect leadership. "Our old ways of relating to each other don't support us any longer," she writes. "It is up to us to journey forth in search of new practices and new ideas that will enable us to create lives and organizations worthy of human habitation." --Howard Rothman [via]
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Softcover, Berrett-Koehler Pub - Leadership and the New Science: Learning About Organization from an Orderly Universe: ISBN 1881052443 (1-881052-44-3)
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Lonely Planet Australiaby David McClymont, Joe Bindloss, Sally O'Brien, Kate Daly, Sam Benson, Paul Smitz, Virginia Jealous, Monique Choy, Patrick Horton, Matthew Lane, Sarah Mathers, Joyce Connelly, Alex Landragin, Paul HardingISBN 1740590651 (1-74059-065-1)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Love All The People: Letters, Lyrics, Routinesby Bill HicksISBN 1841198781 (1-84119-878-1)
Hardcover, Constable & Robinson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love All The People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines'Book summary:In 1993, network executives abruptly cut the final appearance of comedian Bill Hicks a scathing tirade of digs on the Pope and the pro-life movement from an episode of The Late Show with David Letterman. His banning from the show, along with a profile in The New Yorker by veteran writer John Lahr, catapulted Hicks to national prominence. Just months later, at age 32, he died of pancreatic cancer.
Now available for the first time are Hick's most critical and comic observations, gathered from his stand-up routines, diaries, notebooks, letters, and final writings. This collection features his controversial humor and witheringly funny attacks on American culture, from its worship of celebrity and material goods to its involvement in the first Gulf War. Love All the People faithfully traces Hicks's evolution from a funny but conventional stand-up comedian into a fearless and brilliant iconoclast. [via]
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The Mac Is Not a Typewriter: A Style Manual for Creating Professional-Level Type on Your Macintoshby Robin WilliamsISBN 1877932051 (1-877932-05-1)
Hardcover, Performance Enhancement Products
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Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligenceby Pamela McCorduckISBN 1568812051 (1-56881-205-1)
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Map Librarianship: An Introductionby Mary LarsgaardISBN 1563084740 (1-56308-474-0)
Hardcover, Libraries Unltd Inc
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Maps Of The Imagination: The Writer As Cartographerby Peter TurchiISBN 159534005X (1-59534-005-X)
Hardcover, Trinity Univ Pr
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In Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, Turchi takes readers on a delightful journey that explores cartography's and writing's many parallels. For example, Turchi explores the challenges of blank space and the blank page, the role of geometry in maps and of formal devices in writing, the goals of exploration and challenges of presentation, and the balance of intuition with intention. Each idea is richly illustrated with maps, drawings and other illustrations.More editions of Maps Of The Imagination: The Writer As Cartographer:
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Maximum Security: A Hacker's Guide to Protecting Your Internet Site and Networkby AnonymousISBN 1575212684 (1-57521-268-4)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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At nearly 900 pages, this volume is not only an excellent reference source, but also a testimony to the sheer volume of techniques available to those who wish to illicitly gain access to systems. If you're a system administrator, this book will, quite simply, scare you silly--and it should. It will also help you take preventative steps that will ultimately allow you a well-deserved peace of mind. An included CD-ROM contains a selection of security utilities, such as SAFEsuite, a demo of PORTUS Secure Firewall, and the famous SATAN (Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks), which are all discussed within the book. [via]
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Meditationsby Marcus AureliusISBN 1853264865 (1-85326-486-5)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Spiritual Teachings And Reflectionsby Watkins, Alan JacobsISBN 1842931202 (1-84293-120-2)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Mental Health in Your School: A Guide for Teachers and Others Working in Schoolsby Young MindsISBN 1853024074 (1-85302-407-4)
Softcover, Jessica Kingsley Pub
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Metadata: For Information Management and Retrievalby David HaynesISBN 1856044890 (1-85604-489-0)
Hardcover, Neal Schuman Pub
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The Nextgen Librarian's Survival Guideby Rachel Singer GordonISBN 1573872563 (1-57387-256-3)
Softcover, Information Today Inc
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No-Collar: the Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costsby Andrew RossISBN 1592131506 (1-59213-150-6)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Noviceby Robin WilliamsISBN 1566091594 (1-56609-159-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice'Book summary:Subtitled Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice, this book is for anyone who has to design a newsletter, job ad, flyer, business card, memo, report or whatever, but has no idea what separates good design from bad. Except, of course, that the first looks clear, professional, sophisticated and right, and the second is an ugly, unreadable mess.
Robin Williams has an easily readable style and manages to communicate sometimes complex and sophisticated concepts simply and directly. She rightly assumes that, though most people can recognise bad design when they see it, they don't know why it's bad and are therefore powerless to fix the same problems in their own work.
The bulk of the book is given over to explaining how, by sticking to four basic design principles--contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity--you can eliminate design gremlins from your work. In searching for a memorable and appropriate acronym for this principled approach, Williams admits she was only semi-successful.
The second half of the book deals with how to use type. Once again the approach is to explain simply, directly and with illustrated examples how the relationship between typefaces is defined.
As a college teacher, Williams can't resist the temptation to dot little quizzes, tests and mini-projects throughout the text. These are mostly good fun and reinforce what you've read, though even if you decide to ignore them they won't spoil your enjoyment of the book.
The Non-Designer's Design Book is the kind of book you could read in your lunch break. Its attitude is more "sketch in the margin with a pencil", than "complete the projects on the CD". It would be an ideal primer for anyone starting a design course, as well as those who want to improve the look of their memos. --Ken McMahon [via]
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Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Moviesby David L. RobbISBN 1591021820 (1-59102-182-0)
Hardcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies'Book summary:The only thing Hollywood likes more than a good movie is a good deal. For more than fifty years producers and directors of war and action movies have been getting a great deal from Americas armed forces by receiving access to billions of dollars worth of military equipment and personnel for little or no cost. Although this arrangement considerably lowers a films budget, the cost in terms of intellectual freedom can be quite steep. In exchange for access to sophisticated military hardware and expertise, filmmakers must agree to censorship from the Pentagon.
As veteran Hollywood journalist David L. Robb shows in this revealing insiders look into Hollywoods "dirtiest little secret," the final product that moviegoers see at the theater is often not just what the director intends but also what the powers-that-be in the military want to project about Americas armed forces. Sometimes the censor demands removal of just a few words; other times whole scenes must be scrapped or completely revised. What happens if a director refuses the requested changes? Robb quotes a Pentagon spokesman: "Well Im taking my toys and Im going home. Im taking my tanks and my troops and my location, and Im going home." That can be quite a persuasive threat to a filmmaker trying to keep his movie within budget.
Robb takes us behind the scenes during the making of many well-known movies. From The Right Stuff to Top Gun and even Lassie, the list of movies in which the Pentagon got its way is very long. Only when a director is determined to spend more money than necessary to make his own movie without interference, as in the case of Oliver Stone in the creation of Platoon or Francis Ford Coppola in Apocalypse Now, is a film released that presents the directors unalloyed vision.
For anyone who loves movies and cares about freedom of expression, Operation Hollywood is an engrossing, shocking, and very entertaining book. [via]More editions of Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies:
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Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technologyby Albert BorgmannISBN 1587430584 (1-58743-058-4)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Principles of Knowledge Representationby Gerhard BrewkaISBN 1575860562 (1-57586-056-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Puppyby Mark EvansISBN 1564581276 (1-56458-127-6)
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The Road to Serfdomby F. A. HayekISBN 1568493762 (1-56849-376-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Saints for Every Occasion: 101 Of Heaven's Most Powerful Patronsby Thomas J. CraughwellISBN 1580870597 (1-58087-059-7)
Hardcover, C D Stampley Ent
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Schott's Almanac 2007by Ben SchottISBN 1596911719 (1-59691-171-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Selecting & Appraising: Archives & Manuscriptsby Frank BolesISBN 1931666113 (1-931666-11-3)
Softcover, Society of Amer Archivists
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Social Navigation in Information Spaceby Alan J. Munro, D. R. Benyon, D. J. SangerISBN 1852330902 (1-85233-090-2)
Softcover, Springer
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Tapping the Government Grapevine: The User-Friendly Guide to U.S. Government Information Sourcesby Judith Schiek RobinsonISBN 1573560243 (1-57356-024-3)
Softcover, Oryx Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tapping the Government Grapevine: The User-Friendly Guide to U.S. Government Information Sources'Book summary:Judith Schiek Robinson has updated and expanded this popular guide, which offers a thorough and sometimes humorous tour of government information sources. Her highly readable text explains the intricacies of government information and how to find sources that meet specific research needs. New features in the third edition include detailed coverage of Internet resources, directories of World Wide Web addresses, and quick tips on which government Web sites to search for different types of information. Helpful guides to government abbreviations and citations are also included, as are numerous new tables, user guides, exercises, and illustrations.
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Time Almanac 2001: With Information Pleaseby Borgna BrunnerISBN 1929049110 (1-929049-11-0)
Softcover, Warner Books Inc
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Towpath Tours: A Guide to Cycling Ireland's Waterwaysby John DunneISBN 1903464757 (1-903464-75-7)
Softcover, Collins Pr
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Treesby Linda GamlinISBN 1564582302 (1-56458-230-2)
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Uncle John's Ahh-Inspiring Bathroom Readerby Bathroom Reader InstituteISBN 1571458735 (1-57145-873-5)
Softcover, Advantage Pub Group
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Uncle John's Slightly Irregular Bathroom Readerby Bathroom Readers' InstituteISBN 1592232701 (1-59223-270-1)
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Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Readerby Bathroom Readers' InstituteISBN 1592231160 (1-59223-116-0)
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Understanding Comicsby Scott McCloudISBN 1563895579 (1-56389-557-9)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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Visual Function: An Introduction to Information Designby Paul MijksenaarISBN 156898118X (1-56898-118-X)
Softcover, Princeton Architectural Pr
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What the World Needs Nowby Steven JohnsonISBN 1580083099 (1-58008-309-9)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Futureby Daniel PinkISBN 1594481717 (1-59448-171-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future'Book summary:[via]Lawyers. Accountants. Radiologists. Software engineers. That's what our parents encouraged us to become when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind. The era of "left brain" dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which "right brain" qualities-inventiveness, empathy, meaning-predominate. That's the argument at the center of this provocative and original book, which uses the two sides of our brains as a metaphor for understanding the contours of our times.
In the tradition of Emotional Intelligence and Now, Discover Your Strengths, Daniel H. Pink offers a fresh look at what it takes to excel. A Whole New Mind reveals the six essential aptitudes on which professional success and personal fulfillment now depend, and includes a series of hands-on exercises culled from experts around the world to help readers sharpen the necessary abilities. This book will change not only how we see the world but how we experience it as well.
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Wikis: Tools for Information Work And Collaborationby Jane KlobasISBN 1843341786 (1-84334-178-6)
Softcover, Chandos Pub
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X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual for X11, Release 5by Tim Oreilly, Adrian NyeISBN 1565920139 (1-56592-013-9)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual for Version 11 of the Window Systemby Tim Oreilly, Mark LangleyISBN 1565920074 (1-56592-007-4)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual for Version 11 of the Window System'Book summary:[via]The X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual is a complete programmer's reference for the X Toolkit. It provides reference pages for each of the Xt functions as well as the widget classes defined by Xt and the Athena widgets.
This volume is based on Xt documentation from the X Consortium and has been re-edited, reorganized, and expanded. Contents include:
- Reference pages for each of the Xt Intrinsics and macros, organized alphabetically for ease of use.
- Reference pages for the interface definitions of functions registered using other Xt functions.
- Reference pages for the Core, Composite, and Constraint widget methods.
- Reference pages for the Object, RectObj, Core, Composite, Constraint, and Shell widget classes defined by Xt.
- Reference pages for Athena widget classes.
- Reference pages for Xt-related Xmu functions.
- Permuted index.
- Many appendices and quick reference aids.
The third edition of Volume 5 has been completely revised. In addition to covering Release 4 and Release 5 of X, all the man pages have been completely rewritten for clarity and ease of use, and new examples and descriptions have been added throughout the book.
This manual is a companion to Volume 4M, X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual.
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Le Macroscope: Vers Une Vision Globaleby Joel De RosnayISBN 2020045672 (2-02-004567-2)
Hardcover, Editions Du Seuil
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Blink Inteligencia Intuitiva?/blink.: Por Que Sabemos La Verdad En Dos Segundos/ the Power of Thinking Without Thinkingby Malcolm GladwellISBN 1598200879 (1-59820-087-9)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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