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Overconnected

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:02:36 PST

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In Feb 2006, a Danish newspaper printed twelve highly provocative caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. The drawings landed on the internet and quickly circled the globe. As a direct result, riots ensued and at least 139 people died. This is just one example of overconnection. The consequences of an over-connected world cannot be ignored. In this important book, William H. Davidow takes a highly p ...

Audition

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:02:01 PST

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Documentary-maker Aoyama hasn't dated anyone in the seven years since the death of his beloved wife, Ryoko. Now even his teenage son Shige has suggested he think about remarrying. So when his best friend Yoshikawa comes up with a plan to hold fake film auditions so that Aoyama can choose a new bride, he decides to go along with the idea. Of the thousands who apply, Aoyama only has eyes for Yamasa ...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:01:09 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:01:09 PST

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Copyright free ebook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Pride and Prejudice

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:01:08 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Objective-C for Absolute Beginners: IPhone and Mac Programming Made Easy

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 0:43:44 PST

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While it seems that everyone is writing applications for Applers"s iPhone and touch devices, how do they all do it? ...

CHAMBERS ARTS ET NOUVELLES TECHNOLOGIES

Wed, 3 Aug 2011 2:58:50 PST

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The Design of Everyday Things

Fri, 13 May 2011 4:22:33 PST

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A popular, entertaining, and insightful analysis of why some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them. B & W photographs and illustrations throughout.

Distraction

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:47:12 PST

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We all know what it is to be distracted - a feeling that our attention is not quite where it should be. While it is not a new complaint, modern life is plagued by distractions. At work and at home, in relationships and in the bedroom, our attention is often torn between one thing and another. What does it mean to be distracted, and why?In this insightful romp through the history of philosophy, Da ...

Richard Yates

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:42:29 PST

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American Psycho

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:16:42 PST

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Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightmare - "American Psycho" is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront. "Serious, clever and shatteringly effective." - "Sunday Tim ...

The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:16:23 PST

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This collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the whole of Japan's modern era from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the short story genre in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Taisho era, to the new breed of writers produ ...

Einstein and Buddha

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 3:35:32 PST

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Provocative, stimulating, and insightful, Einstein and Buddha points to the far-reaching and profound parallels between Western scientific thought and Eastern religion. These remarkably similar disciplines touch on the essential nature of energy and matter, the relationship between subject and object, and the limits of language in understanding and describing reality. The shared understandings co ...

What Are You Optimistic About?

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 3:49:02 PST

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In 2007 the leading online forum for scientists and thinkers, www.edge.org, issued its third annual question: 'What are you optimistic about, and why?' As with its predecessors -- 'What do you believe to be true but cannot prove?' and 'What is your dangerous idea?' -- the question created an instant media storm, with global reaction to the answers posted by some of the world's most eminent scient ...

The Boy Who Kicked Pigs

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:28:11 PST

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Robert Caligari is a thoroughly evil thirteen-year-old who gets his kicks from kicking pigs. After a humiliating episode with a bacon butty, Robert realizes just how much he loathes the human race - and his revenge is truly terrible. This subversive horror-fantasy from Tom Baker (ex-monk, ex-sailor, and the ultimate Doctor Who) is outrageous and funny, and since the hardback was published in 1999 ...

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:31:06 PST

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Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. This book is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that n ...

Atomised

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:30:40 PST

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Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated. Both are symptomatic members of our atomised society, where religio ...

Big Questions: Philosophy

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:41:08 PST

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The Big Questions series is designed to let renowned experts confront the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy. Each 3000-word essay simply and concisely examines a question that has eternally perplexed enquiring minds, and provides answers from history's great thinkers. This ambitious project is a unique distillation of humanity's best ide ...

A Brief History of Infinity

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:40:34 PST

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'Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.' - Douglas Adams, "Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy". We human beings have trouble with infinity - yet infinity is a surprisingly human subject. Philosophers and mathematicians have gone mad contem ...

We Need to Talk about Kelvin

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:56:43 PST

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Marcus Chown, author of Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, takes familiar features of theworld we know and shows how they can be used to explain profound truths ...

The Old Tea Seller

Tue, 6 Jul 2010 7:19:46 PST

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Poet, Zen Buddhist priest, renowned thinker, and seller of tea -- Baisao was all of these things, as well as being a bit of an eccentric. Known to carry large wicker baskets filled with tea utensils through the streets and surrounding hills of Japan's capital, Baisao set up shop wherever he ended up and brewed tea for those who came to enjoy the scenery with him. Establishing a quiet, simple life ...

Finding the Still Point (Book and CD)

Sun, 4 Jul 2010 0:02:26 PST

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One of Zen Buddhism’s most respected teachers offers a complete introduction to Zen meditation in 96 short pages and a 70-minute CD. Using straightforward language, John Daido Loori explains everything new meditators need to know to begin practicing—including where to sit (on a chair, cushion, or bench), how to position the body (complete with instructional photographs), and how to practice Zen m ...

The Inheritance of Loss

Thu, 1 Jul 2010 22:27:04 PST

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In the foothills of the Himalayas sits a once grand, now crumbling house - home to three people and a dog. There is the retired judge dreaming of colonial yesterdays; his orphaned granddaughter Sai who has fallen for her clever maths tutor; the cook, whose son Biju writes untruthful letters home from New York City; and Mutt, the judge's beloved dog. Around the house swirls mountain mist - but als ...

Thinks...

Thu, 1 Jul 2010 22:26:35 PST

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Ralph Messenger is an international academic star in the highly trendy field of language and thought research. Novelist Helen Reed arrives at the university to teach creative writing and to recover from the unexpected death of her husband. Despite huge differences in belief and temperament, they begin a secret affair - with complicated consequences, comic and tragic, for those around them. Witty, ...

The Zen Path Through Depression

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:57:18 PST

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Drawing on his own struggle, Philip Martin reveals another path people can travel to get through depression - one that not only eases the pain, but mends the spirit. Extremely accessible to people with little or no Zen experience as well as to longtime students of Buddhism, this guide shows how the insights and exercises of Zen offer relief for those suffering from depression.

Avatars at Work and Play

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:56:42 PST

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Avatars at Work and Play brings together contributions from leading social scientists and computer scientists who have conducted research on virtual environments used for collaboration and online gaming. They present a well-rounded and state-of-the-art overview of current applications of multi-user virtual environments, ranging from highly immersive virtual reality systems to internet-based virtu ...

Online Worlds

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:54:22 PST

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Virtual worlds are on the rise, and they involve more than just playing games. This book examines the phenomena of virtual worlds, using a range of theories and methodologies to discover the principles that make them so popular.

Media Space 20 Years of Mediated Life

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:51:51 PST

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Each volume in the series provides a perspective on current knowledge and discussion for one topic, in monographs, edited collections, and textbooks appropriate ...

Final Fantasy XIII

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:46:50 PST

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This title includes an exclusive additional 16-page section featuring an overview and analysis of 'The Final Fantasy XIII' story. This is the complete guide to 'Final Fantasy XIII'. Every secret, every side-quest, every mini-game, every bonus, every achievement and every trophy is revealed and explained in a dedicated Extras chapter. Dedicated walkthrough charts the most rewarding path through th ...

Making virtual worlds

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:42:23 PST

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Synthetic Worlds

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:42:16 PST

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From "EverQuest" to "World of Warcraft," online games have evolved from the exclusive domain of computer geeks into an extraordinarily lucrative staple of the entertainment industry. People of all ages and from all walks of life now spend thousands of hours--and dollars--partaking in this popular new brand of escapism. But the line between fantasy and reality is starting to blur. Players have cre ...

Alter Ego

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:42:16 PST

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Alter Ego is a cool concept book, presenting the phenomenon of the contemporary avatar-the virtual characters gamers choose and design to engage in 3D worlds online. Portraits of gamers from the United States, Europe, China, and Japan (including leading figures of the gaming world) are paired with digital images of their alter egos, graphically dramatizing the gap between fantasy and reality ...

Exodus to the Virtual World

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:42:16 PST

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Virtual worlds have exploded out of online game culture and now capture the attention of millions of ordinary people: husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, workers, retirees. Devoting dozens of hours each week to massively multiplayer virtual reality environments (like World of Warcraft and Second Life), these millions are the start of an exodus into the refuge of fantasy, where they experience life ...

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:42:15 PST

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The style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, and educators in the socialand behavioral sciences, this updated "Publication Manual"... The sixth edition has been revised and updated to include: ˙new ethics guidance on such topics as determining authorship and terms of collaboration, duplicate publication, plagiarism and self-plagiarism, disguising of participants, validity of in ...

Cognition, communication and interaction

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:39:29 PST

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This book will be of interest to researchers, practitioner and designers from all of these domains, as well as providing a comprehensive research text for ...

Total Engagement

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:39:25 PST

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Every week, millions of people including many of your employees spend hours playing multi-player online games with a level of engagement they don t bring to work. These aren t just adolescent video games we re talking rich narrative quests with 3-D environments, cool avatars, and compelling goals and rewards. Imagine the value if you could transfer key ingredients of game design and the gamer exc ...

Neuromancer

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:39:22 PST

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Neuromancer is the most influential science fiction novel of our time. Cyberspace and virtual reality were invented in this book. It changed forever the way we look at tomorrow and was the inspiration behind the blockbuster film The Matrix. In 2009 it celebrates its 25th Anniversary.

The Social Life of Avatars

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:39:22 PST

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Virtual reality technology has been developed commercially since the early 1990s but it is only recently, with the popularity of the internet, that it has become feasible to link many users simultaneously in shared virtual environments. This raises a number of interesting questions such as: what is the difference between face-to-face and avatar-to-avatar interaction? What patterns govern the form ...

Snow Crash

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:39:20 PST

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The only relief from the sea of logos is within the well-guarded borders of the Burbclaves. Is it any wonder that most sane folks have forsaken the real world and chosen to live in the computer-generated universe of virtual reality? In a major city, the size of a dozen Manhattans, is a domain of pleasures limited only by the imagination. But now a strange new computer virus called Snow Crash is s ...

Organizations in Action

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:39:19 PST

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The Making of Second Life

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:39:19 PST

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"The Making of Second Life" is the behind-the-scenes story of the Web 2.0 revolution's most improbable enterprise: the creation of a virtual 3D world with its own economy, culture, and political system. Now, the toast of the Internet economy and the subject of countless news articles and profiles, Linden Lab's Second Life is usually known for the wealth of real world companies (Reuters, Pontiac, ...

PHP & MySQL Web Development All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:39:16 PST

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Webmasters and Web programmers around the world know that PHP and MySQL provide a robust, easy-to-learn, open-source solution for creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites for eCommerce and content management. In fact, PHP is used in one of every three Web sites on the Internet and MySQL has been downloaded millions of times. PHP and MySQL provide a freely downloadable and widely supported alte ...

Shoplifting from American Apparel

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 22:26:57 PST

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Set mostly in Manhattan, this autobiographical novella spans two years in the life of a young, hip writer who is trying to both not be a bad person and find ...

Challenges in Virtual Collaboration

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:13:38 PST

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Virtual, or mediated, communication: effects of communication media and a strategy for improving their use.

Coming of Age in Second Life

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:12:55 PST

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Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love - the possibilities ar ...

Second Lives

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:11:58 PST

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We've always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Oz - places over the rainbow, beyond death and loss. Now, through computer technology, we can inhabit those worlds together. Each week, between 35 and 50 million people worldwide abandon reality for virtual worlds. In Boston, Massachusetts, a group of nine disabled men and women inhabit one virtual body, which frees them from their lifelong st ...

Lotus Moon

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 22:16:34 PST

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At 33, Otagaki Nobu renounced a world that had visited great tragedy upon her (after losing two husbands and two infant children) and was ordained a Buddhist nun, taking the name Rengetsu (Lotus Moon). This is a selection of her finest poetry presented in John Stevens' elegant translations and includes illustrations of her artwork and pottery.

59 Seconds

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 22:16:34 PST

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In "59 Seconds", psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman presents a fresh approach to change that helps people achieve their aims and ambitions in minutes, not months. From mood to memory, persuasion to procrastination, and resilience to relationships, Wiseman outlines the research supporting this new science of rapid change, and describes how these quick and quirky techniques can be incorporated ...

Tarnsman of Gor

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 22:16:33 PST

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World communication

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:36:41 PST

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Endgame

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:33:32 PST

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"Three years after Godot, Beckett premiered this equally bleak yet entertaining scenario with four characters. At an indeterminate time in an indeterminate place (which could be one of the last rooms standing after a nuclear war, or, judging from its design, the inside of a human skull), Hamm, blind and seated in a wooden armchair on casters, makes speeches and orders around Clov, who is able to ...

Karamazov Brothers

Mon, 2 Mar 2009 0:48:49 PST

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This title is translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction by A.D.P.Briggs. As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? The reckless and passionate Dmitri? The corrosive intellectual Ivan? Surely not the chaste novice monk Alyosha? The s ...

Shyness

Mon, 2 Mar 2009 0:44:04 PST

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Shy Facts Shy children are not destined to be shy adults. Shyness does not equal low self-esteem. Shyness is not a "disease," personality deficit, or character flaw. Humans aren't the only species to experience shyness. Scientists have been studying shy cattle aswell as shy cats, shy fish, and shy dogs. Some of the world's most famous, richest, smartest and bravest people are shy.

Instant Confidence

Mon, 2 Mar 2009 0:43:46 PST

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Would you like to have the confidence to go for anything you want in life? Paul McKenna Ph.D. is the world's leading hypnotist and Britain's most successful self-improvement author. In this groundbreaking new book, he reveals the secrets of mastering your emotions and living with a greater sense of ease and certainty than ever before. You will learn how to push the 'off' switch for fear and despe ...

Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness

Mon, 2 Mar 2009 0:43:24 PST

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Through the use of real-life examples and cognitive behavioural techniques, this book attempts to help the reader unlearn bad habits and replace them with healthy ones. It outlines the nature of shyness, the symptoms and possible causes and explains how to deal with upsetting thoughts, overcome avoidance and manage symptoms of anxiety through relaxation, distraction and panic management.

Mirroring People

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 5:32:23 PST

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Party of One

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 5:07:15 PST

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Isaac Newton. Michelangelo. Anne Rice. Barry Bonds. Haruki Murakami. They and countless others belong to a subculture that will never join hands, a group whose voices, by nature, will never form a chorus. They are lonersand they have at least one thing in common: They keep to themselves. And they like it that way. Self-reliant, each loner swims alone through a social worlda world of teams, tro ...

The Sound of Water

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 5:06:47 PST

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Here are more than two hundred of the best haiku of Japanese literature translated by one of America’s premier poet-translators. The haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness. This illustrated collection includes haiku by the great masters from the seventeenth t ...

Crow With No Mouth

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 5:06:29 PST

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When Zen master Ikkyu Sojun (1394-1481) was appointed headmaster of the great temple at Kyoto, he lasted nine days before denouncing the rampant hypocrisy he saw among the monks there. He in turn invited them to look for him in the sake parlors of the Pleasure Quarters. A Zen monk-poet-calligrapher-musician, he dared to write about the joys of erotic love, along with more traditional Zen themes. ...

Wild Ways

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 5:06:01 PST

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Ikkyu, who lived from 1394â1481, was known as one of Japan's most irreverent and iconoclastic Zen masters. He spent much of his life as a vagrant monk, wandering here and there, and mingling with people both high- and low-born. On occasion, Ikkyu played Robin Hood, taking money given by the rich and spending it on the homeless. Interspersing his travels with retreats deep in the mountains, he e ...

The Introvert Advantage

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 5:05:31 PST

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At least one out of four people prefers to avoid the limelight, tends to listen more than they speak, feels alone in large groups, and requires lots of private time to restore their energy. They're introverts, and here is the book to help them boost their confidence while learning strategies for successfully living in an extrovert world. After dispelling common myths about introverts-they're no ...

Will You Please be Quiet, Please?

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 5:03:05 PST

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With this, his first collection, Carver breathed life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people, and won a readership that grew with every subsequent brilliant collection of stories, poems and essays that appeared in the last eleven years of his life.

Mrs Dalloway

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 5:12:05 PST

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Confessions of a Chatroom Freak

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 5:11:44 PST

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Confessions of a Chatroom Freak charts one mans surreal and funny journey into the internets seedy underbelly. Posing as chatroom addict LoopyLisa21f, the author engages in online conversation with a succession of would-be suitors. By turns disturbing and hilarious, Confessions of a Chatroom Freak reveals what our friends and colleagues really get up to online. And then makes them look stupid.

Mirrors in the Brain

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 5:10:45 PST

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Emotions and actions are powerfully contagious; when we see someone laugh, cry, show disgust, or experience pain, in some sense, we share that emotion. When we see someone in distress, we share that distress. When we see a great actor, musician or sportsperson perform at the peak of their abilities, it can feel like we are experiencing just something of what they are experiencing. Yet only recent ...

Naive. Super

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 5:10:18 PST

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Troubled by an inability to find any meaning in his life, the 25-year-old narrator of this deceptively simple novel quits university and eventually arrives at his brother's New York apartment. In a bid to discover what life is all about, he writes lists. He becomes obsessed by time and whether it actually matters. He faxes his meteorologist friend. He endlessly bounces a ball against the wall. He ...

Making up the Mind

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 5:09:54 PST

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Written by one of the world's leading neuroscientists, Making Up the Mind is the first accessible account of experimental studies showing how the brain creates our mental world. * Uses evidence from brain imaging, psychological experiments and studies of patients to explore the relationship between the mind and the brain * Demonstrates that our knowledge of both the mental and physical comes to ...

Eunoia

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 5:09:17 PST

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'Eunoia', which means 'beautiful thinking', is the shortest word in the English language to contain all five vowels. This book also contains them all, but never at the same time. Each of "Eunoia's" five chapters is univocalic: that is, each chapter uses only one vowel. A triumphant feat, seven years in the making, this uncanny work of avant-garde literature is one of the most surprising and awe-i ...

My Grammar and I (Or Should that be 'Me'?)

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 5:07:05 PST

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For anyone who has ever had a problem with dangling modifiers and split infinitives, or for those who have no idea what these things even are, "My Grammar and I" provides all the answers. Taking you on a tour of the English language, through a veritable minefield of rules and conditions for the grammatically unaware, and highlighting the common pitfalls that every English language user faces on a ...

The Box Man

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 5:05:34 PST

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Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett. In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in a large cardboard box he wears over his head. Wandering the str ...

I Am a Cat

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 9:26:13 PST

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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 9:26:13 PST

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Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humour. "Rashomon" and "In a Bamboo Grove" inspired Kurosawa's magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as "The Nose", "O-Gin", and "Loyalty" paint a rich and imaginative p ...

Twilight Sunflower

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 2:20:54 PST

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ESSAYS ON INDIVIDUALITY

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:30:03 PST

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"Individuality is freedom lived," wrote John Dos Passos in a passage that serves as a fitting introduction to this unusual volume dedicated to the critical examination of the place of the individual in contemporary society. Contributors are: John Dos Passos, Arthur A Ekirch Jr, Milton Friedman, Friedrich A Hayek, Joseph Wood Krutch, William M McGovern, James C Malin, Felix Morley, Helmut Schoeck, ...

Simulacra and Simulation

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:30:00 PST

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The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernism. The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economi ...

Student's Guide to Analysis of Variance

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:28:02 PST

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In the investigation of human behaviour, statistical techniques are employed widely in the social sciences. Whilst introductory statistics courses cover essential techniques, the complexities of behaviour demand that more flexible and comprehensive methods are also employed. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) has become one of the most common of these and it is therefore essential for both student and ...

Basic Math for Social Scientists

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:27:59 PST

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Taking an informal approach, Hagle presents a review of the basic mathematical concepts that underlie most quantitative analysis in the social sciences. After an algebra review featuring sets and combinations, Hagle discusses limits and continuity. Calculus is presented next, with an introduction to differential calculus. Multivariate functions, partial derivatives and integral calculus are di ...

Simulating Minds

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:27:59 PST

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People are minded creatures; we have thoughts, feelings and emotions. More intriguingly, we grasp our own mental states, and conduct the business of ascribing them to ourselves and others without instruction in formal psychology. How do we do this? And what are the dimensions of our grasp of the mental realm? In this book, Alvin I. Goldman explores these questions with the tools of philosophy, de ...

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:27:59 PST

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In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and on his writing. Equal parts travelogue, training log, and rem ...

Perspectives on Imitation: Imitation, Human Development, and Culture v. 2

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:27:59 PST

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Imitation is not the low-level, cognitively undemanding behavior it is often assumed to be, but - along with language and the ability to understand other minds - is one of a trio of related capacities that are fundamental to human mentality. In these landmark volumes, leading researchers across a range of disciplines provide a state-of-the-art view of imitation, integrating the latest findings an ...

A Mathematical Primer for Social Statistics

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:27:59 PST

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Beyond the introductory level, learning and effectively using statistical methods in the social sciences requires some knowledge of mathematics. This handy volume introduces the areas of mathematics that are most important to applied social statistics.

Perspectives on Imitation: Mechanisms of Imitation and Imitation in Animals v. 1

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:27:59 PST

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Imitation is not the low-level, cognitively undemanding behavior it is often assumed to be, but rather--along with language and the ability to understand other minds--one of a trio of related capacities that are fundamental to human mentality. In these landmark volumes, leading researchers across a range of disciplines provide a state-of-the-art view of imitation, integrating the latest findings ...

Basic Math for Social Scientists

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:27:59 PST

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This book of worked-out examples not only accompanies Timothy M Hagle's earlier book Basic Math for Social Scientists: Concepts but also provides an informal refresher course in algebra sets, limits and continuity, differential calculus, multivariate functions, partial derivatives, integral calculus and matrix algebra. Problem sets are also provided so that readers can practice their grasp of sta ...

Readings in Groupware and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:23:18 PST

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This comprehensive introduction to the field represents the best of the published literature on groupware and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). The papers were chosen for their breadth of coverage of the field, their clarity of expression and presentation, their excellence in terms of technical innovation or behavioral insight, their historical significance, and their utility as sources ...

Multiple Attribute Decision Making

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:23:18 PST

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This volume offers social scientists a concise overview of multiple attribute decision making (MADM) methods, their characteristics and applicability and methods for solving MADM problems. Real world examples are used to introduce the reader to normative models for optimal decisions. The authors explore how MADM methods can be used for descriptive purposes to model: the existing decision-making p ...

Calculus

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:23:13 PST

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Aimed at readers who may be more familiar with statistics than calculus and mathematics, this carefully written volume gives an overview of the central ideas in calculus. Author Gudmund R. Iversen shows examples of how calculus is used to translate many real-world phenomena into mathematical functions. Beginning with an explanation of the two major parts of calculus, differentiation and integrati ...

Typologies and Taxonomies

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:23:13 PST

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How do we group different subjects on a variety of variables? Should we use a classification procedure in which only the concepts are classified (typology), one in which only empirical entities are classified (taxonomy), or some combination of both? In this clearly written book, Bailey addresses these questions and shows how classification methods can be used to improve research. Beginning wit ...

Using Language

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:23:12 PST

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Herbert Clark argues that language use is more than the sum of a speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers and listeners, writers and readers perform their individual actions in coordination, as ensembles. In contrast to work within the cognitive sciences, which has seen language use as an individual process, and to work within the social science ...

Game Theory

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:23:12 PST

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This volume demonstrates the applicability of game-theoretic models and explores zero-sum games, the fundamental Minimax Theory, nonzero-sum games, and n-person games.

Tests of Significance

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:23:12 PST

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An elementary introduction to significance testing, this paper provides a conceptual and logical basis for understanding these tests.

Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:23:12 PST

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When used in tandem, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, two distinct but highly compatible approaches to research synthesis, form a powerful, scientific approach to analyzing previous studies. But to see their full potential, a social work researcher must be versed in the foundational processes underlying them. This pocket guide to Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis illuminates precisely tha ...

Imperial Gardens of Japan

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 5:20:39 PST

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Kant

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:58:59 PST

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Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why the "Critique of Pure Reason" has proved so enduring.

A Beginner's Guide to Reality

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:58:25 PST

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A Beginner's Guide to Reality is an introduction to philosophy for people who don't read philosophy. Jim Baggott's sources range from Aristotle to The Matrix. He examines the major developments in Western philosophical thought on the nature of reality, at each of three levels social, perceptual and physical. (Do money, colour, or photons exist?) The book systematically investigates these levels, ...

Grounding Cognition

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:57:53 PST

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One of the key questions in cognitive psychology is how people represent knowledge about concepts such as football or love. Recently some researchers have proposed that concepts are represented in human memory by the sensorimotor systems that underlie interaction with the outside world. These theories represent a recent development in cognitive science to view cognition no longer in terms of abst ...

Describing Talk

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:57:33 PST

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Original and resourceful, this concise introduction focuses on describing talk using a taxonomy of verbal response modes (VRMs). Together with its accompanying IBM-compatible computer disk, the book is a self-contained coder training programme The volume presents the development of the taxonomy and its conceptual underpinnings and presents case studies of research projects that have used it. The ...

Joe Pauker's Get Lost! the Cool Guide to Amsterdam

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:56:25 PST

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Joe Pauker is back! This 10th edition of his Cool Guide sizzles with new and exciting things to do in Amsterdam. Opinionated, but never irreverent, Get Lost! remains the only guide to cover Amsterdam's underground culture accurately and extensively, leading travellers to the cheapest, funkiest and most delicious spots in town: inexpensive organic restaurants, the coolest bars and clubs, an incred ...

Lonely Planet Best of Amsterdam

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:56:04 PST

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