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Pamphlet Architecture 28
Augmented Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
In 1977 Steven Holl and William Stout created a grittier alternative to mainstream architectural publishing called Pamphlet Architecture. With Holl's Bridges, the landmark series was born, and for 30 years Pamphlet has served as soapbox and laboratory for such notable architects and theorists as Lebbeus...
Saving Normal
An Insider's Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
International Bestseller • "An extraordinarily important book." —Marcia Angell, Harvard Medical School
A deeply fascinating and urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization of normality, by "one of the world's most prominent psychiatrists" (The Atlantic)
Anyone living...
Smoking Sucks
Help Your Children Avoid the Smoking Trap
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Allen Carr's method has helped people all over the world to stop smoking and lead healthier lives, free from addiction. Designed for concerned parents to buy, this easy-to-use book targets the most important group of all: children. Smoking can be a difficult subject to broach with children, especially...
Tenkara - Ancient and Modern
Tenkara, #2
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
Tenkara fishing can be seen as a streamlined counterpart to western fly-fishing. The equipment is designed to direct focus to the actual fishing and catching of the fish, not to cause a major preoccupation with the equipment. Only a rod, Tenkara line and fly are necessary for Tenkara fishing (no reel...
Aesthetics and the Environment
The Appreciation of Nature, Art and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
Traditional aesthetics is often associated with the appreciation of art, Allen Carlson shows how much of our aesthetic experience does not encompass art but nature, in our response to sunsets, mountains or horizons or more mundane surroundings, like gardens or the view from our window.
He argues that...
Vernacular Buildings
A Global Survey
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
The face of the world is changing and nowhere is this more evident than with vernacular buildings. They disappear or are extensively changed for a variety of reasons, from natural causes such as fire, storm and earthquake, to a wide variety of
cultural causes including obsolescence and changes in...
by Allen R. Remaley
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Since Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of a bus, more and more Americans have been expressing their rights to freedom of speech and action. All too few announce their opinions on the everyday happenings taking place in their world. Allen R. Remaley is neither a journalist nor talking head commentator...
Palm webOS
The Insider's Guide to Developing Applications in JavaScript using the Palm Mojo™ Framework
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
A Note from the Author and from O'Reilly Media about what this bookdoes--and doesn't--do:
Palm webOS is a brand new platform and represents a very different type ofoperating system where the web runtime is used as the basis for the UI andApplication model. Palm and O'Reilly felt that it was...
Interdisciplinary Research
Process and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The Third Edition of Interdisciplinary Research: Process and Theory offers a comprehensive and systematic presentation of the interdisciplinary research process and the theory that informs it. Authors Allen F. Repko and Rick Szostak illustrate each step of the decision-making process by drawing on...
Time Travel and Warp Drives
A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
To see video demonstrations of key concepts from the book, please visit this website: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/sites/timewarp/
Sci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe that...
by Allen G. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
From ATMs to the personal finance, online shopping to networked information management, databases permeate every nook and cranny of our highly-connected, information-intensive world. Databases have become so integral to the business environment that, nowadays, it’s next to impossible to stay competitive...
by Allen G. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This is the first book to describe the Microsoft HoloLens wearable augmented reality device and provide step-by-step instructions on how developers can use the HoloLens SDK to create Windows 10 applications that merge holographic virtual reality with the wearer’s actual environment.
Best-selling...
Think Java
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Currently used at many colleges, universities, and high schools, this hands-on introduction to computer science is ideal for people with little or no programming experience. The goal of this concise book is not just to teach you Java, but to help you think like a computer scientist. You’ll learn...
by Tess Allen
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Rowena Wilkes has earned the exquisite view from her suite on the 21st floor in a DC business highrise. She's a self-made millionaire several times over, a savvy business woman whom all her friends and associates admire, but her romantic life is shaky, her lover's mother is a pill, if not psychotic, and the secret Rowena's hiding from everyone is about to rise up and bite her - big time!