Personal Library - Genre Tiles
Note that years might not be accurate. When I originally created my spreadsheet of books, I used the most recent copyright date rather than the first.
Books listed as On Shelf are available for checkout, On Display are reference texts that may be checked out by special request, and Checked Out are currently checked out by another patron.
There are 115 books in the collection, 104 of which have been given descriptions and colorful covers.
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Table of contents:
- Fiction
- Classics & historical fiction (7)
- General / Unclassified (6)
- Russian (7)
- Thriller (1)
- Literature (4)
- Sci-fi (1)
- Nonfiction
- Science (2)
- Engineering (5)
- Memoir (2)
- Literature (6)
- Music (10)
- Linguistics (12)
- Crafts (6)
- Software-dev (22)
- Film (1)
- Mathematics (5)
- History (6)
- Business (2)
- General / Unclassified (4)
- Manuals (1)
- Video-games (3)
- Feminism (1)
- Nature (1)
Fiction
Classics & historical fiction
The Awakening
On Shelf
The Awakening charts Edna Pontellier's journey of self-discovery. The time spent with a younger friend on a summer holiday on Grand Isle in Lousiana unlocks a feeling in her that she can't close away again. On returning to her family home in New Orleans, she starts to transition from unthinking housewife and mother into something freer and more confident, although this doesn't meet with the full approval of the society she's a part of.
Little Fires Everywhere
On Shelf
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter, Pearl, and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs.
Play It As It Lays
On Shelf
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play it as it Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, plumbing the emptiness and ennui of a seemingly bankrupt society in spare sentences that scour and disturb. Set in the moral limbos of Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the Mojave Desert, Play it as it Lays remains, more than 40 years after its original publication, a profoundly unsettling novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis, stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
Letters to Oma
On Shelf
When fifteen-year-old Christina Eudora Van Scholls learns that her family will leave Germany for Texas, her greatest sorrow is leaving behind her beloved grandmother. And so, in a series of letters, she takes "Oma" on this great adventure with her family - and takes us as readers. Sometimes the letters are dark with discouragement, for the Von Scholls find, as did many German-Texas families, that the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants, known as the Adelsverein, was unable to fulfill its promises of land, housing, horses, and farm implements.
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
On Shelf
This complete works of William Shakespeare combines exemplary textual scholarship with elegant writing and design. It is based on the iconic 1623 First Folio: the original Complete Works lovingly assembled by Shakespeare's fellow actors, and the version of Shakespeare's text preferred by many actors and directors today. This edition goes further to present Shakespeare's plays as they were originally intended - as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed onstage. It features the entire range of Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets.
The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War
On Shelf
In his ambitious and deeply rewarding novel, Jimmy Carter brings to life the Revolutionary War as it was fought in the Deep South; it is a saga that will change the way we think about the conflict. He reminds us that much of the fight for independence took place in that region and that it was a struggle of both great and small battles and of terrible brutality, with neighbor turned against neighbor, the Indians' support sought by both sides, and no quarter asked or given. The Hornet's Nest follows a cast of characters and their loved ones on both sides of this violent conflict - including some who are based on the author's ancestors.
No Fear Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
On Shelf
Read Romeo and Juliet in all its brilliance and actually understand what it means. No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Romeo and Juliet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy to understand translation on the right.
General / Unclassified
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
On Shelf
Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore's Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the oldest son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet and clumsy Ezra, Pearl's favorite, who never stops yearning for the "perfect" family that could never be his own. Now grown, they have gathered together again - with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell
Salt Dancers
On Shelf
Salt Dances is the dramatic story of one woman's redemptive journey back to her childhood through layers of memory and longing. Unmarried and pregnant at 41, architect Julia Ives returns to her home in the Pacific Northwest, determined to understand her family's troubled past before her child is born. Haunted by memories of betrayal and abandonment, she confronts the father she has not seen in 21 years.
Salvation
On Shelf
Meet Crane Cavanaugh, budding scientist. Raised in poverty in rural Iowa by depraved adults who've given up the life of charlatans on the gospel circuit, the unsinkable Crane traces her experiences from disfiguration in the womb to well-deserved elevation in the halls of academe. When her family is forced to leave its squatters shack, Crane is separated from her sister, brother, and parents. What follows is a series of fateful encounters: some kind, some cruel - each a new world with its own dangers and limitations.
Lucky in the Corner
On Shelf
Nora and Fern's relationship as mother and daughter is a tumble of love and mistrust. To Nora, her daughter is an enigma - at the same time wonderful and unfindable. Fern sees her mother as treacherous - for busting up their family to move in with her lover, Jeanne. As their lives become complicated by the arrivals of a bike-messenger boyfriend for Fern, a shadowy affair for Nora, and a baby in need of a family, this mother and daughter find their way onto a fresh footing with each other.
How to Be a Time Lord
On Shelf
Have you ever wondered if you would make the grade in the Time Lord Academy? Or how to fly the TARDIS? Or the correct way to dip you fish finger into custard? Then THIS is the book for you. This ancient book contains thousands of years of Time Lord wisdom – which the Doctor has ‘improved’ with his own notes and doodles as a guide for the next Doctor. It contains everything you need to know to be just like him. So keep it under your fez and don’t tell the Daleks.
American Han
On Shelf
Jane and her brother Kevin Kim embody the model minority myth until both depart from the path: Jane drops out of law school without telling her parents, and Kevin gives up his promising tennis career and cuts himself off from the family. Their parents feel equally lost in a country that claims to support them yet in which they can find no place. When Kevin goes missing, no one recognizes his absence as the warning sign it is until it erupts in a moment that indicts them all.{{new_paragraph}}Both deeply serious and absurdly funny, American Han is a story about striving and asimilation, difficult love, and family fidelity. A searing and probing portrait that challenges assumptions about the immigrant experience, Lisa Lee's debut introduces a powerful new voice on the literary landscape.
Russian
The Cherry Orchard
On Shelf
The Cherry Orchard was first produced by the Moscow Art Theatre on Chekhov's last birthday, January 17, 1904. Since that time it has become one of the most critically admired and performed plays in the Western world, a high comedy whose principal theme, the passing of the old semifeudal order, is symbolized in the sale of the cherry orchard owned by Madame Ranevsky.
Notes from the Underground
On Shelf
In 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels - Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) penned the darkly fascinating Notes from the Underground. Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes. Moreover, the novel introduces themes - moral, religious, political and social - that dominated Dostoyevsky's later works.
The Overcoat and Other Short Stories
On Shelf
This rich selection of four short stories by the great 19th century Russian author of Dead Souls includes The Nose, a savage satire of incompetent bureaucrats and the snobbery and complacency of the Russian upper classes; Old Fashioned Farmers, a sketch depicting an elderly couple who live a happy but simple life in rustic seclusion; The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ican Nikiforovich, one of Gogol's most famous comic series; and The Overcoat, an exceptionally moving tale - considered a masterpiece of the form - about a poor and much-ridivuled St. Petersburg official.
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories
On Shelf
One of the world's greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) also wrote numerous excellent short stories, three of which are contained in this volume. The Kreutzer Sonata (1891) is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a splenetic complaint about the way in which society educates young men and women in the matters of sex. In The Death of Ivan Ilych (1886), a symbolic Everyman discovers the inner light of faith and love only when confronted with death. How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886) is a simple, didactic story of peasant life, written by Tolstoy in the wake of a spiritiau lcrisis. All three tales offer readers a splendid introduction to Tolstoy's work as well as the focused delights of the short story form brought to a pinnacle in the hands of a master.
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
On Shelf
Besides the brilliant title story, a cunningly wrought narrative of romance and murder in the haute bourgeoisie of St. Petersburg, this volume includes all five stories originally collected as The Tales of the Late P. Belkin.
Fathers and Sons
On Shelf
The impressionable young student Arkady Kirsanoff arrives home in the company of his friend Bazarov, a cynical biologist. Arkady's father and uncle, already distressed by the upheaval of the peasants, grow increasingly irritated at Bazarov's outspoken nihilism and his ridicule of the conventions of state, church, and home. The young friends, bored by the rustic life of the Kirsanoff estate, venture off to the provincial capital in search of amusement. There they encounter both romance and alienation.
Chelkash and Other Stories
On Shelf
Three of Gorky's best knon works appear in this collection - the title story, in which a thieving vagrant takes on a young, unwilling apprentice; Makar Chudra, the story of an ill-fated, tempestuous romance between a pair of nomad lovers; and Twenty-six Men and a Girl, widelyregarded as Gorky's best short story, in which a wretched crew of prezel-makers, laboring in a damp and grimy cellar, destroy their only source of joy.
Thriller
Executive Orders
On Shelf
The President is dead - and the weight, literally, of the world falls on Jack Ryan's shoulders, in Tom Clancy's newest and most extraordinary novel.
Literature
Classics of Russian Literature [Part 1 of 3]
On Shelf
Russian literature famously probes the depths of the human soul. These 36 half-hour lectures delve into more than 40 works by a dozen writers under the guidance of Professor Irwin Weil of Northwestern University.
Classics of Russian Literature [Part 2 of 3]
On Shelf
Russian literature famously probes the depths of the human soul. These 36 half-hour lectures delve into more than 40 works by a dozen writers under the guidance of Professor Irwin Weil of Northwestern University.
Classics of Russian Literature [Part 3 of 3]
On Shelf
Russian literature famously probes the depths of the human soul. These 36 half-hour lectures delve into more than 40 works by a dozen writers under the guidance of Professor Irwin Weil of Northwestern University.
Death of a Salesman: Text and Criticism
On Shelf
Since it was first performed in 1949, Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize - winning drama about the tragic shortcomings of an American dreamer has been recognized as a milestone of the theater. This Viking Critical Library edition of Death of a Salesman contains the complete text of the play, typescript facsimilies, and extensive critical and contextual material.
Sci-fi
Halo: Broken Circle
On Shelf
Centuries before the Human-Covenant War would rage across the galaxy, a similar conflict erupted between the Prophets and the Elites - two alient races at odds over the sacred artifacts left by the powerful Forerunners, who disappeared eons ago. Although they would eventually form a stable alliance called the Covenant, there are those on both sides who question this fateful union.
Nonfiction
Science
Physics for Scientists & Engineers [Volume III] [Fourth Edition]
On Shelf
You don’t have to struggle that hard to learn physics, if you will take the time to read this book and go to class. As you begin each chapter, respond to the chapter-opening questions, read the text carefully, answer exercise questions, and follow through worked-out examples – they will teach you how to solve problems.
Sustainability: A Bedford Spotlight Reader [Second edition]
On Shelf
The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series brings critical topics to life in a portable, cost-effective reader. In this volume you’ll explore these questions and others: What are the foundations of sustainability? How do natural disasters and other crises challenge sustainability? How is sustainability connected to the environment, tourism, and recreation?
Engineering
Linear Systems and Signals [Third Edition]
On Shelf
Linear Systems and Signals, Third Edition, has been refined and streamlined to deliver unparalleled coverage and clarity. It emphasizes a physical appreciation of concepts through heuristic reasoning and the use of metaphors, analogies, and creative explanations. This text uses mathematics not only to prove axiomatic theory, but also to enhance physical and intuitive understanding. Hundreds of fully worked examples provide a hands-on, practical grounding of concepts and theory.
The Atmel AVR Microcontroller Mega and XMega in Assembly and C
On Shelf
Offering comprehensive, cutting-edge coverage in a reader-friendly presentation, The Atmel AVR Microcontroller: MEGA and XMEGA in Assembly and C delivers a systematic introduction to the popular Atmel 8-bit AVR microcontroller with an emphasis on the MEGA and XMEGA subfamilies.
Introduction to Communication Systems [Third Edition]
On Shelf
This textbook presents to undergraduates an introductory explanation of communication systems, with the emphasis on signal design and modulation. The approach is therefore tailored to a careful development of the mathematical principles upon which such systems are based, using examples from a wide variety of current communication systems wherever possible. These range from commercial broadcasting and telephone systems to satellite telemetry and radar.
Fundamentals of Electric Circuits [6th Edition]
On Shelf
Alexander and Sadiku's sixth edition of Fundamentals of Electric Circuits continues in the spirit of its successful previous editions, with the objective of presenting circuit analysis in a manner that is clearer, more interesting, and easier to understand than other, more traditional texts. Students are introduced to the sound, six-step problem solving methodology in chapter one, and are consistently made to apply and practice these steps in practice problems and homework problems throughout the text
The Motorola MC 68000 Microprocessor Family: Assembly Language, Interface Design, and System Design [2nd Edition]
On Shelf
This important revision was written to introduce both students and the practicing computer professional to the characteristics of the Motorola 68000 family of processors. It has been widely applauded as a text that is practical, easy to read, and designed to educate students regarding concepts as well as applied theory. In addition, this book will prove helpful as a reference in which topics are organized according to function and importance for the design of programs, interfaces, or systems.
Memoir
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
On Shelf
In this groundbreaking, best-selling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.
Us
On Shelf
¿Qué pasa cuando la vida que tenías asumida da un giro de 180 grados? Nada… Y también todo. Us es la historia de amor de Sara y Diana, y también la historia de la transición de género de Diana. Habla de cómo ese proceso dambió la forma de concebir el mundo de ambas y a la vez hizo que se dieran cuenta de que nada tenía por qué cambiar tanto.
Literature
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction [Compact 8th Edition]
On Shelf
Ann Charters knows that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction. Her anthology, The Story and its Writer, is the most comprehensive and diverse introduction to fiction available, notable for its array of the writers' own commentaries on the craft and traditions of fiction and for its adventurous selection of contemporary and multicultural fiction, this time with more emphasis on graphic storytelling and short, short fiction.
Building Bridges through Writing
On Shelf
Building Bridges through Writing is an introductory composition text that covers the general writing process while dealing with the specifics of writing, conducting research, and documenting sources in the different disciplines of the academic community. It is designed to help students improve all of their writing, from freshman composition to general education courses to senior-level courses in their majors.
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
On Shelf
Fourty-six of the most acclaimed and exciting authors working today answer a simple yet profound question: What inspires you?
The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry [Second Edition]
On Shelf
This new edition is a thorough and sensitive revision of the unique, justly acclaimed, and much used anthology of modern poetry in English. In revising the book, the editors have kept to the principles that served the first edition so well. The selections are generous, often demonstrating the span of a career. More attention is given to major poets and to major poetic trends. Contemporary poetry is once again given full representation, in such a way that its outlines are always clear.
The Little Seagull Handbook [4th Edition]
On Shelf
The Little Seagull Handbook [3rd Edition]
On Shelf
Music
The Musician's Guide Anthology [Third Edition]
On Shelf
The Anthology includes over 100 outstanding teaching pieces written between the seventeenth century and the present. Recordings for all Anthology works are available online. For this edition, the Anthology has been expanded with new works by Bach, Debussy, Holst, Ives, and more.
The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis [Third Edition]
On Shelf
The Musician’s Guide series is the most comprehensive and flexible set of materials available for learning music theory. For theory classes, this textbook and its accompanying workbook cover a wide range of topics – from fundamentals to harmony, form and analysis, popular music, and twenty-first century works. An anthology features core repertoire for study along with recordings for each work.
The Story of Jazz
On Shelf
This book is “one of the great books of jazz” according to the New York Times Book Review. For thirty years, beginning in the mid-twenties, Marshall Stearns listened to jazz, read about it, and talked to all the musicians who played it that he could discovery. The result is this superlative history, the first and most renowned systematic outline of the evolution of this unique American musical phenomenon.
Inside the Score
On Shelf
This acclaimed text reveals the writing secrets of jazz greats Thad Jones, Sammy Nestico, and Bob Brookmeyer! It presents detailed examinations of 8 of their best charts by analyzing voicings, melodic construction, form, orchestration, textures, passing harmonies, etc.
Instrumental Jazz Arranging
On Shelf
Instrumental Jazz Arranging consists of a systematic presentation of the essential techniques and materials of jazz arranging. Authors Mike Tomaro and John Wilson draw upon over fifty years of combined teaching experience to bring you a book that addresses all of the basic needs for beginning arrangers. Topics include counterpoint/linear writing, jazz harmony, compositional techniques, and orchestration. All serve to address in great detail issues concerned with true arranging.
Jazz [2nd Edition]
Checked Out
This second edition of Jazz combines a dynamic listening experience of 77 classic and lesser-known masterpieces (23 new to this edition) with an absorbing narrative history and a media package without match.
The Norton Scores: An Anthology for Listening
On Display
The Norton Scores is an anthology of music designed for the listener; the selection of music ranges from a fifteenth-century moet by Josquin to twentieth-century masterpieces by Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and Bartók, and includes complete works and excerpts illustrating the major forms, genres, and composers.
Piano 300
On Shelf
On March 8, 2000 the National Museum of American History opened PIANO 300 in the Smithsonian’s International Gallery in Washington, D.C. Celebrating the tricentennial of the piano’s invention in Florence by Bartolomeo Cristofori, this remarkable exhibition was seen by more than 330,000 visitors from around the world during the course of a 20-month run. Part exhibition catalog and part technical and social history of the piano, PIANO 300: Celebrating Three Centuries of People and Pianos presents the exhibition’s highlights.
Scales and Chord for Clarinet
On Shelf
Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France
On Shelf
Linguistics
Introduction to Government and Binding Theory [2nd Edition]
On Shelf
Since its publication in 1991 Liliane Haegeman’s Introduction to Government and Binding Theory has become established as the most authoritative introduction to the Principles and Parameters approach to syntactic theory. This new edition has been extensively updated throughout. Major structural changes include new chapters on Functional Heads and Head Movement and on Relativized Minimality. Discussions of a number of topics missing from or not paid due attention in the first edition have been integrated or expanded.
An Introduction to English language Structure
On Shelf
This outstanding resource for students offers a step-by-step, practical introduction to English syntax and syntactic principles, as developed by Chomsky over the past fifteen years. Assuming little or no prior background in syntax, Andrew Radford outlines the core concepts and how they can be used to describe various aspects of English sentence structure. This is an abridged version of Radford’s major new textbook Analysing English Sentences, and will be welcomed as a handy introduction to current syntactic theory.
Language and Meaning
On Shelf
Language and Meaning provides a clear, accessible and unique perspective on the philosophical and linguistic question of what it means to mean. Looking at relationships such as those between literal and non-literal meanings, linguistic form and meaning, and language and thought, this volume tackles the issues involved in what we mean and how we convey it.
English Grammar and Composition [4th Edition]
On Shelf
This book covers all areas of the English curriculum with the exception of reading and literature: grammar, usage, sentence structure, composition, speaking and listening, mechanics, reference tools, vocabulary development, and the history of the language.
You Can Learn Sign Language!
On Shelf
Want to learn sign language? With this fun and easy guide, you’ll learn over 300 useful words, all organized by topic.
Linguistic Anthropology
On Shelf
Anthropologists have always put language at the centre of their agenda. So too have linguists. Linguistic anthropology, the amalgam of the two disciplines, aims to document and examine how language mirrors social structure and culture-specific thought patterns.
Eat Your Words: A Fascinating Look at the Language of Food
On Shelf
Did you know that you could once buy a camel for 120 bricks of tea? And you must be wondering why it’s called a hamburger when there’s no ham in it. The words hot dog, lollipop, and eggplant all have surprising origin stories, too!
Semicolon
On Shelf
In Semicolon, Cecelia Watson charts the rise and fall of this infamous punctuation mark, which for years was the trendiest one in the world of letters. But in the nineteenth century, as grammar books became all the rage, the rules of how we use language became both stricter and more confusing, with the semicolon a prime example.
Webster's New World Spanish Dictionary [Concise Edition]
On Shelf
The combination of extensive coverage and outstanding clarity, simplicity, and economy, makesthis dictionary ideal for home, school and office use.
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
On Shelf
Language is humanity's most spectacular open source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. But social media isn't just an engine of linguistic change - it's also a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch our language evolve in real time.
The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language
On Shelf
Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca - its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and international politics, English has become commodified for its economic value and increasingly detached from any particular nation. This meteoric 'rise of English' has many obvious benefits to communication. Tourists can travel abroad with greater ease. Political leaders can directly engage their counterparts. Researchers can collaborate with foreign colleagues. Business interests can flourish in the global economy. But the rise of English has very real donwsides as well.
Exophony: Voyages outside the mother tongue
On Shelf
Yoko Tawada's first essay collection in English presents an electrifying new side of the National Book Award-winner as she dives deep into her lifelong fascination with cross-hybridizing languages. The accent here, as in her fiction, is on the art of drawing closer to the world through defamiliarization. Tawada famously writes in both Japanese and German, but her interest in language reaches far beyond any mere dichotomy. The term "exophonic," which she first heard in Senegal, has a special allure for the author: "I was already familiar with similar terms, 'immigrant literature,' or 'creole literature,' but 'exophonic' had a much broader meaning, referring to the general experience of existing outside one's mother tongue." Exophony opens a new vista into Yoko Tawada's world and delivers more of her signature erudite wit - at once cross-grained and generous, laser-focused and multidimensional, slyly ironic and warmly companionable.
Crafts
How to Draw Manga: Macromedia Flash Techniques
On Display
You've probably heard before that FLASH is something used to make lively, interactive, web-based interfaces or animated movies. FLASH is certainly well suited for those applications, but did you know you could use it to create computer graphics that put Photoshop to shame? FLASH-based Bishoujo drawing techniques are quite advanced, and in this book we'll show you the complete, essential, start-to-finish techniques of six pioneering FLASH masters. We've literally stuffed the pages with tips on everything from how to draw with FLASH to how to make your Bishoujo cuter. At the end of each section, you'll find a gallery showcasing each artist's work
Flash Cartoon Animation: Learn from the Pros
On Display
This book is the shortcut to success, and you’ll learn a hell of a lot along the way. Two experienced Flash animators, Kevin and Glenn, draw on their rich studio experience and their knowledge of Flash to show you the best way to create great Flash cartoons, that look as good and work in the same way as traditional films.
The Flash Webisode Production Handbook
On Display
With the power of Flash, your web presentations and information can be fun and interactive. Using streaming animations, or Webisodes, you can entertain, educate, and promote to your audience easily and effectively. Written for artists, illustrators, multimedia developers, and web developers, The Flash Webisode Production Handbook provides useful insights and hands-on techniques that explain how to plan, create, and deploy Webisodes with Flash 5.
Eye on Nature: An Elegant Little Guide to Outdoor Photography
On Display
Welcome to Eye on Nature, a guide to improving your outdoor photography and a collaboration between one of America’s finest outdoor photographers and three companies known for their devotion to excellence in their products: L. L. Bean, Inc., Eastman Kodak Company, and Haselblad USA.
Take a Ball of String: 16 Beautiful Projects for your Home
On Shelf
Everyone has at least one long-forgotten ball of string lurking at the back of a drawer. Take a Ball of String shows us how to transform this everyday mundane item into an array of exciting makes. The pleasingly tactile nature of string makes it perfect for creating some crafty treasures. From rustic garden twine to soft cotton braid, these eye-catching projects will inspire you to get knitting, crocheting, coiling and knotting. The 16 projects fall into four main sections: Kitchen, Bathroom, Porch and Study. All the basic techniques and know-how are explained, with clear step-by-step instructions and pictures.
How to Choose & Use Typefaces
On Shelf
As the vehicle of a text’s meaning, good typography is key to successful design. Knowing where to begin, however, can be daunting, as the rise of desktop publishing has made an overwhelming range of fonts available. Providing a valuable insight into theories and practices, this handy guide will help you give your message the presentation it deserves.
Software-dev
3D Graphics: A Visual Approach
On Shelf
Richly illustrated, 3D Graphics: A Visual Approach presents a visual introduction to the exciting world of computer graphics and covers important rendering techniques including bump, texture, and environment mapping. Through a technique called Visual Analysis, a reader learns to identify graphics effects visually by looking for a few cues. Cues and concepts are presented progressively, with more complex cues building from simpler ones. The material covered in this text will provide students with a good feel for the range and visual effect of rendering algorithms.
The Java Native Interface: Programmer's Guide and Specification
On Shelf
Problem Solving and Structured Programming in FORTRAN [2nd Edition]
On Shelf
This book is designed as a text for a one semester, introductory course in computer programming. No background other than high school algebra is assumed. The material presented reflects the authors’ view that good problem solving and programming habits should be introduced at a very early stage in the development of a student’s programming skills, and that they are best instilled by examples, by frequent practice, and through instructor-student interaction. Therefore we have concentrated on demonstrating problem solving and programming techniques through the use of more than 30 completely solved problems.
Assembly Language Programming for the IBM Personal Computer
On Shelf
In this practical new book, David J. Bradley shows you how to write assembly language programs for the IBM Personal Computer. To use the book most effectively you will need some previous experience in BASIC, PASCAL, or similar languages. However, the material in this book will help you in assembly programming even if you lack knowledge of the inner workings of a computer.
Assembler Language with ASSIST and ASSIST/I [Fourth Edition]
On Shelf
The objective of this text is the systematic introduction of a completely operational subset of assembler language. Elements of the language are introduced without the complications inherent in any attempt to cover file manipulation and data processing concepts in a first assembler language course. Concentration on the language alone permits a more thorough and comprehensive initial treatment.
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
On Shelf
Core C++: A Software Engineering Approach
On Shelf
C# Primer: A Practical Approach
On Shelf
Writing Secure Code: Practical Strategies and Techniques for Secure Application Coding in a Networked World [2nd Edition]
On Shelf
Hackers cost countless dollars and cause endless worry every year as they attack networked applications, steal credit-card numbers, deface web sites, and slow network traffic to a crawl. Learn techniques that can help keep the bad guys at bay with this entertaining, eye-opening book – now updated with the latest security threats plus lessons learned from the recent security pushes at Microsoft.
Microsoft .NET Kick Start
On Shelf
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Game Development
On Display
Creating games with Macromedia Flash MX 2004 is a rewarding endeavor for aspiring and seasoned programmers alike. With its quick download time, cross-platform deployment, ease of use, and power, Flash is quickly becoming the program of choice for online game development. The use of vector graphics also makes the games scalable for any resolution from full screen to cell phone.
Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0
On Shelf
Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005
On Shelf
ASP.NET is Microsoft’s premier technology and framework for creating server-side web applications. ASP.NET 1.0 was a revolution in the web programming world and was so wildly popular that it was licensed on thousands of commercial web servers while it was still a beta product. ASP.NET 2.0 is the next major milestone in web development, and Visual Basic is very much a core part of the .NET Framework. This book will show you how to exploit them both to their fullest potential to build truly powerful next-generation web applications.
Pro VB 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform [Second Edition]
On Shelf
The Essential Guide to Flex 2 with ActionScript 3.0
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Flex 2 represents something of a revolution in web applications. It is the next evolutionary step of Flash, which has grown from a web animation tool to a powerful enterprise web design and development tool. With nearly 98% of all web browsers and cellular phones running the Flash Player needed to use Flash and Flex applications, knowledge of Flex is indispensable for any serious web designer and developer.
From A to <A>: Keywords of Markup
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As it becomes impossible to imagine a world without a World Wide Web, information organization, delivery, and production have converged on the simple principle of marking up information for given audiences. From A to <A> investigates the relationship between media and culture by articulating questions regarding the role of markup. How do the codes of HTML, CSS, PHP, and other markup languages affect the Web’s everyday uses? How do these languages shape the Web’s communicative functions?
HTML & CSS: Design and Build Websites
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Welcome to a nicer way to learn about HTML & CSS. Whether you want to design and build websites from scratch or take more control over an existing site, this book will help you create attractive, user-friendly web content. We understand that code can be intimidating, but take a look inside and you will see how this guide differs from many traditional programming books.
Effective Java [Second Edition]
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Are you looking for a deeper understanding of the Java programming language so that you can write code that is clearer, more correct, more robust, and more reusable? Look no further! Effective Java, Second Edition, brings together seventy-eight indispensable programmer’s rules of thumb: working, best-practice solutions for the programming challenges you encounter every day.
Modern Compiler Design [Second Edition]
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"Modern Compiler Design" makes the topic of compiler design more accessible by focusing on principles and techniques of wide application. By carefully distinguishing between the essential (material that has a high chance of being useful) and the incidental (material that will be of benefit only in exceptional cases) much useful information was packed in this comprehensive volume. The student who has finished this book can expect to understand the workings of and add to a language processor for each of the modern paradigms, and be able to read the literature on how to proceed. The first provides a firm basis, the second potential for growth.
Javascript & Jquery: Interactive Front-End Web Development
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This book covers: 1. Basic programming concepts - assuming no prior knowledge of programming beyond an ability to create a web page using HTML & CSS ; 2. Core elements of the JavaScript language - so you can learn how to write your own scripts from scratch ; 3. jQuery - which will allow you to simplify the process of writing scripts (this is introduced half-way through the book once you have a solid understanding of JavaScript) ; 4. How to recreate techniques you will have seen on other web sites such as sliders, content filters, form validation, updating content using Ajax, and more. Each chapter: Breaks subjects down into bite-sized chunks with a new topic on each page ; Contains clear descriptions of syntax, each one demonstrated with inspiring code samples ; Uses diagrams and photography to explain complex concepts in a visual way. This book enables you to use & customize thousands of scripts, JavaScript APIs, and jQuery plugins that are freely available on the web as well as create your own scripts from scratch.
Visual Basic User’s Guide for Microsoft Excel
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Welcome to Visual Basic – the powerful and easy-to-use programming language used in Microsoft Excel. With Visual Basic, you can automate everyday tasks, add custom features and functions to suit your needs, and even create complete applications.
Structured Design: Fundamentals of a Discipline of Computer Program and Systems Design
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A valuable new approach to computer systems and program design, structured design is quickly becoming the standard industrial technique for significantly improving productivity, enhancing reliability, and lowering maintenance costs. Although structured design concepts have been available to the industry for well over a decade, this book is the first to address the subject in a comprehensive and definitive way, presenting systems and program design as a disciplined science.
Film
Hitchcock
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Any book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock is valuable, but considering that this volume's interlocutor is fellow director François Truffaut, the conversation is remarkable indeed. Here is a rare opportunity to eavesdrop on two cinematic masters from very different backgrounds as they cover each of Hitch's films in succession. Though this book was initially published in 1967 when Hitchcock was still active, Truffaut later prepared a revised edition that covered the final stages of his career. The book is a storehouse of insight and witticism, including the master's impressions of a classic like Rear Window (''I was feeling very creative at the time, the batteries were well charged''), his technical insight into Psycho's shower scene (''the knife never touched the body; it was all done in the [editing]''), and his ruminations on flops such as Under Capricorn (''If I were to make another picture in Australia today, I'd have a policeman hop into the pocket of a kangaroo and yell 'Follow that car!''').
Mathematics
Applied Linear Algebra
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Linear algebra is an essential part of the mathematical toolkit required in the modern study of many areas in the behavioral, natural, physical, and social sciences, in engineering, in business, in computer science, and of course in pure and applied mathematics. Our aim in this book is to develop the fundamental concepts of linear algebra, emphasizing those concepts that are most important in applications, and to illustrate the applicability of these concepts through a variety of applications. Thus, while we present applications for illustrative and motivative purposes, our main goal is to present mathematics that can be applied.
Numerical Linear Algebra for High-Performance Computers
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The purpose of this book is to present a unified treatment of recently developed techniques and current understanding about solving problems of linear equations and large-scale eigenvalue problems on high-performance computers. The book provides a rapid introduction to the world of vector and parallel processing for these linear algebra applications.
Matrix Algorithms: Volume 1: Basic Decompositions
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This thorough, concise, and superbly written volume is the first in a self-contained multivolume series devoted to matrix algorithms. It focuses on the computation of matrix decompositions – that is, the factorization of matrices into products of similar ones.
Discrete Mathematics [5th Edition]
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Today and increasing proportion of the applications of mathematics involves discrete rather than continuous models. The main reason for this trend is the integration of the computer into more and more of modern society. This book is intended for a one-semester introductory course in discrete mathematics.
Elementary Linear Algebra [Ninth Edition]
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Linear algebra is an important course for a diverse number of students for at least two reasons. First, few subjects can claim to have such widespread applications in other areas of mathematics-multivariable calculus, differential equations, and probability, for example – as well as in physics, biology, chemistry, economics, finance, psychology, sociology, and all fields of engineering. Second, the subject presents the student at the sophomore level with an excellent opportunity to learn how to handle abstract concepts.
History
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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A time machine has just transported you back into the fourteenth century. What do you see? How do you dress? How do you earn a living and how much are you paid? What sort of food will you be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord? And more important, where will you stay? The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England is not your typical look at a historical period. This radical new approach shows us that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived.
The Legacy of Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs leaves behind an extraordinary legacy, putting him in a class with America’s greatest industrialists. He was the most innovative business leader of our time, the man Fortune named CEO of the Decade in 2009. Now, from Fortune comes the richly illustrated story of his life at the help of Apple, based in part on three decades of Fortune stories about the cultural icon who revolutionized computing, telephones, movies, music, retailing, and product design.
I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59
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Comparing Google to an ordinary business is like comparing a rocket to an Edsel. Edwards, Employee Number 59, offers the first inside view of Google, giving readers a chance to fully experience the bizarre mix of camaraderie and competition at this phenomenal company. Edwards, Google's first director of marketing and brand management, describes it as it happened. We see the first, pioneering steps of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company's young, idiosyncratic partners; the evolution of the company's famously nonhierarchical structure (where every employee finds a problem to tackle or a feature to create and works independently); the development of brand identity; the races to develop and implement each new feature; and the many ideas that never came to pass.
Losing the Signal
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In 2009, BlackBerry controlled half of the smartphone market. Today that number is less than one percent. What went so wrong? Losing the Signal is a riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley. This is not a conventional tale of modern business failure by fraud and greed. The rise and fall of BlackBerry reveals the dangerous speed at which innovators race along the information superhighway. With unprecedented access to key players, senior executives, directors and competitors, Losing the Signal unveils the remarkable rise of a company that started above a bagel store in Ontario. At the heart of the story is an unlikely partnership between a visionary engineer, Mike Lazaridis, and an abrasive Harvard Business school grad, Jim Balsillie. Together, they engineered a pioneering pocket email device that became the tool of choice for presidents and CEOs. The partnership enjoyed only a brief moment on top of the world, however. At the very moment BlackBerry was ranked the world's fastest growing company internal feuds and chaotic growth crippled the company as it faced its gravest test: Apple and Google's entry in to mobile phones. Expertly told by acclaimed journalists, Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, this is an entertaining, whirlwind narrative that goes behind the scenes to reveal one of the most compelling business stories of the new century.
The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy
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When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city’s water supply to a source that corroded Flint’s aging lead pipes. Complaints about foul-smelling water were dismissed: the residents of Flint, mostly poor and African American, were not seen as credible, even in matters of their own lives.
Essays on Indonesian & Malayan History
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Four of these essays relate directly to the period of the British occupation of Java and its dependencies (1811-16), and another to the years immediately following the restitution of these possessions to the Netherlands. The remaining essays are concerned with the somewhat broader theme of Western influence in Indonesia and Malaya.
Business
App Empire: Make Money, Have a Life, and Let Technology Work for You
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A guide to building wealth by designing, creating, and marketing a successful app across any platformChad Mureta has made millions starting and running his own successful app business, and now he explains how you can do it, too, in this non-technical, easy-to-follow guide. Make Millions with Apps provides the confidence and the tools necessary for taking the next step towards financial success and freedom. The book caters to many platforms including iPhone, iPad, Android, and BlackBerry.This book includes real-world examples to inspire those who are looking to cash in on the App gold rush. Learn how to set up your business so that it works while you don't, and turn a simple idea into a passive revenue stream. Discover marketing strategies that few developers know and/or use Learn the success formula for getting thousands of downloads a day for one App Learn the secret to why some Apps get visibility while others don't Get insights to help you understand the App store market Make Millions with Apps delivers advice on the most essential things you must do in order to achieve success with an app. Turn your simple app idea into cash flow today!
The Best Résumés for Scientists and Engineers
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A résumé that works for a business person probably wont work for a scientist or engineer. The technical professional’s résumé has a format, tone, length, and vocabulary all its own. Now Adele Lewis, founder of one of the largest professional recruiting firms in the country and author of bestselling résumé guides for a variety of targeted professionals shows you – the engineer, academic, or computer scientist – how to write the kind of résumé that makes you stand out.
General / Unclassified
Brain Puzzlers
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Enter the out-of-the-ordinary, mysterious, fun world of lateral thinking puzzles. Here, circumstances are anything but normal. This is how each puzzle works: one person, who looks at the solution, takes questions from the other players who must use their imaginations, piece together subtle clues, and come at the problem from a variety of perspectives.
Secrets of Making and Breaking Codes
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Ever since humans first began to communicate, we've had secrets to keep -- secrets of state, war, business, or the heart. From the moment the first secret message was sent, others were busy trying to decipher it. By rearranging, substituting, or transposing symbols, any message can be encoded or decoded -- if you know how. Secrets of Making and Breaking Codes is a practical field manual designed to teach you the basic mechanics of enciphering and deciphering communications. The author has used his extensive knowledge of and experience in electronic communications and languages -- as well as his decades of fascination with secret codes -- to demystify the field of cryptology. Hamilton Nickels uses plain, uncomplicated English and simple, workable systems that rely on neither advanced mathematics, nor on ethereal philosophies. This is the only hands-on guide to both the simplest cipher schemes -- that need little more than scratch paper and a pencil to crack -- as well as more sophisticated codes that use one-time code books, pocket calculators, and the most advanced computer-based systems used by the military and diplomatic corps of most governments. Letting the wrong eyes see a secret message can often make the difference between victory and defeat, success and failure, life and death. Secrets of Making and Breaking Codes will make mastering codes easier.
I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live In It
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I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It is tech analyst Jess Kimball Leslie's hilarious, frank homage to the technology that contributed so significantly to the person she is today. From accounts of the lawless chat rooms of early AOL to the perpetual high school reunions that are modern-day Facebook and Instagram, her essays paint a clear picture: That all of us have a much more twisted, meaningful, emotional relationship with the online world than we realize or let on. Coming of age in suburban Connecticut in the late '80s and early '90s, Jess looked to the nascent Internet to find the tribes she couldn't find IRL: fellow Bette Midler fans; women who seemed impossibly sure of their sexuality; people who worked with computers every day as part of their actual jobs without being ridiculed as nerds. It's in large part because of her embrace of an online life that Jess is where she is now, happily married, with a wife, son, and dog, and making a living of analyzing Internet trends and forecasting the future of tech. She bets most people would credit technology for many of their successes, too, if they could only shed the notion that it's as a mind-numbing drug on which we're all overdosing.
This Idea is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know
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Presents essays responding to a question about what scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known, written by such authors as Jared Diamond, Richard Thaler, Richard Dawkins, Lisa Randall, Steven Pinker, and Carlo Roveri.
Manuals
My Galaxy Note 3
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Step-by-step instructions with callouts to Samsung Galaxy Note 3 photos that show you exactly what to do; Help when you run into Samsung Galaxy Note 3 problems or limitations; Tips and notes to help you get the most from you Samsung Galaxy Note 3.
Video-games
Minecraft Essential Handbook
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This official handbook might just save your life. Learn how to find resources; make a shelter; craft tools, armor, and weapons, and protect yourself from monsters. With tips from Minecraft experts, including developer Jeb and creator Notch himself, this is the definitive guide to surviving your first few days in Minecraft.
Minecraft Construction Handbook
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An official guide to Minecraft construction shares essential tips and tricks for building creative structures and innovations ranging from theme parks and waterslides to pirate coves and animal cannons.
Hacks for Minecrafters: The Unofficial Guide to Tips and Tricks That Other Guides Won’t Teach You
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With more than 100 million registered players, Minecraft has taken control of gamers all over the world. With Hacks for Minecrafters, you’ll be able to take back that control! Only with the help found in hacks for Minecrafters will you be able to craft your world exactly how you want it to look, all while discovering the hidden gems of the game.
Feminism
Brown/Trans/Les
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In Trans/Rad/Fem, radical transfeminist Talia Bhatt attempted to provide a thorough, materialist framework for understanding the oppression of trans women particularly and all queer people generally as an indelible component of patriarchal misogyny. A key facet of that oppression is epistemicide, the totalizing erasure of knowledge, language, and history in order to prevent the marginalized from so much as being able to conceptualize, let alone articulate, the terms of their oppression.
Nature
How to Identify Birds
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A breakthrough in field identification. Enjoy identifying birds with the speed and ease of an expert. More than 700 color photographs, 33 unique charts of field marks, maps, and a clear, practical text.