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Mobile Design for iPhone and iPad

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:55:30 PST

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Preface Web designers know that their industry changes quickly. Continuous adaption and development of skills is necessary in order to always stay up to date. Over the past few years, mobile web usage has increased to a point that web ...

How to Create Selling eCommerce Websites

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:55:25 PST

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Preface Designing and developing for e-commerce takes a lot of brain work, knowledge and research before you start. You don't only have to please your customer with a beautiful layout and a smart structure – you also have to make your ...

The Variable Man

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:15:24 PST

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40 novelle

Sat, 7 Jan 2012 1:19:15 PST

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Professional Web Design

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:46:31 PST

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... Guide to Professional Networking ............. ..196 Why Network? .......... ...................................................................... ..196 ...

Ebook: The Smashing Book

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:16:17 PST

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Preface One can make simple things difficult, and writing a book the normal way just wasn'ta challenge enough for us. The list of contributors that you can ...

Habibi

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:26:55 PST

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Habibi, based on a Middle Eastern fable, tells the story of Dodola, who escapes being sold into slavery and rescues an abandoned baby she names Zam. They live in isolation in an old boat in the desert. As they age their relationship shifts from mother and son, to brother and sister and eventually lovers. In the meantime however Dodola is forced to prostitute herself to desert traders in order to ...

HTML5 for Publishers

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:33:18 PST

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HTML5 is revolutionizing the Web, and now it's coming to your ebook reader! With the release of the EPUB 3 specification, HTML5 support will officially be a part of the EPUB standard, and publishers will be able to take full advantage of HTML5's rich feature set to add rich media and interactivity to their ebook content. HTML5 for Publishers gives an overview of some of the most exciting feature ...

What is EPUB 3?

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:32:36 PST

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What is EPUB 3 discusses the exciting new format that is set to unleash a content revolution in the publishing world. Laden with features the printed page could never offer--such as embedded multimedia and scripted interactivity--EPUB 3 will forever change what a book can be. This article walks you through the format and puts it in its place in the digital landscape, explaining why EPUB 3 is set ...

RESTful Web Services

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:25:54 PST

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Book Description "Every developer working with the Web needs to read this book." -- David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Rails framework "RESTful Web Services finally provides a practical roadmap for constructing services that embrace the Web, instead of trying to route around it." -- Adam Trachtenberg, PHP author and EBay Web Services Evangelist You've built web sites that can be used b ...

Restful Java Web Services

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:23:21 PST

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JavaScript Web Applications

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:17:20 PST

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Building rich JavaScript applications that bring the desktop experience to the Web is now possible, thanks to powerful JavaScript engines and the CSS3 and HTML5 specifications. The key is moving state to the client side; but that's no simple task. This book takes you through all the steps necessary to create state-of-the-art JavaScript applications, including structure, templating, frameworks, an ...

What Is Node?

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 0:33:38 PST

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Node.js. It’s the latest in a long line of “Are you cool enough to use me?” programminglanguages, APIs, and toolkits. In that sense, it lands squarely in the tradition of Rails,and Ajax, and Hadoop, and even to some degree iPhone programming and HTML5. Dig a little deeper, and you’ll hear that Node.js (or, as it’s more briefly called by many,simply “Node”) is a server-side solution for JavaScrip ...

What Is HTML5?

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 0:33:14 PST

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HTML5: Everyone’s using it, nobody knows what it is. I realize that sounds more like a line out of an existential movie — maybe Waiting for Godot or a screenplay by Sartre — than a statement about HTML5. But it’s really the truth: most of the people using HTML5 are treating it as HTML4+, or even worse, HTML4 (and some stuff they don’t use). The result? A real delay in the paradigm shift that HTML ...

Best of Smashing Magazine

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:54:03 PST

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Agile Product Management with Scrum

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:50:59 PST

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The First Guide to Scrum-Based Agile Product Management In Agile Product Management with Scrum, leading Scrum consultant Roman Pichler uses real-world examples to demonstrate how product owners can create successful products with Scrum. He describes a broad range of agile product management practices, including making agile product discovery work, taking advantage of emergent requirements, creati ...

Footnotes in Gaza

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:14:43 PST

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Rafah, a town at the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front rubbish-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men. Situated on the border with Egypt, swaths of Rafah have been reduced to rubble. Rafah is today and has always been a notorious flashpoint in this most bitter of conflicts. Buried deep in the archives ...

Responsive Web Design

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:47:39 PST

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From mobile browsers to netbooks and tablets, users are visiting your sites from an increasing array of devices and browsers. Are your designs ready? Learn how to think beyond the desktop and craft beautiful designs that anticipate and respond to your users’ needs. Ethan Marcotte will explore CSS techniques and design principles, including fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries, demonstr ...

Last Day in Vietnam

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:38:05 PST

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Dark Horse is proud to present the newest graphic novel by Will Eisner, one of comics` pioneers and inarguably the medium`s first maverick creator! Last Day in Vietnam is Eisner`s memoir of stories about soldiers who are engaged not only in the daily hostilities of war but also in larger, more personal combat. During Eisner`s years in the military, and particularly during the many field trips h ...

Fun Home

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:43:26 PST

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This breakout book by Alison Bechdel takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings andlike Marjane Satrapi's Persepolisa story exhilaratingly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert an ...

How to be a rockstar freelancer

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:00:10 PST

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The Web Design Business Kit

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:16:01 PST

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The Smashing Book #2

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:11:20 PST

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This book shares valuable practical insight into design, usability and coding. It provides professional advice for designing mobile applications and building successful e-commerce websites, and it explains common coding mistakes and how to avoid them. You’ll explore the principles of professional design thinking and graphic design and learn how to apply psychology and game theory to create engagi ...

The Smashing Book

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:11:17 PST

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The Smashing Book is a printed book about best practices in modern Web design. The book shares technical tips and best practices on coding, usability and optimization and explores how to create successful user interfaces and apply marketing principles to increase conversion rates. It also shows how to get the most out of typography, color and branding so that you end up with intuitive and effecti ...

Photography for the Web

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:08:48 PST

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A hands-on on guide to digital photography, with a practical focus on the Web.

The Web Startup Success Guide

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 6:28:20 PST

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If there's a software startup company in your developer heart, this is the book that will make it happen. The Web Startup Success Guide is your one-stop shop for all of the answers you need today to build a successful web startup in these challenging economic times. It covers everything from making the strategic platform decisions as to what kind of software to build, to understanding and winning ...

Host Your Web Site On The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 6:23:13 PST

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"Host Your Web Site On The Cloud" is a step-by-step guide to hosting web sites on Amazon EC2. Authored by Amazon's Senior Manager of Cloud Computing ...

Online Marketing Inside Out

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 6:21:51 PST

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Online Marketing Inside Out is an invaluable book for anyone wanting to market products or services online - whether or not marketing is part of your job description. Small-business entrepreneurs and web-site owners will benefit from this information-packed book, as will traditional marketers with little or no experience of online marketing. With so many potential customers online this book wi ...

The Principles Of Project Management

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 6:20:57 PST

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You don’t need to sit through months of boring lectures, painstakingly work your way through 1,000 page plus monstrosities, or take an exam to become project manager. Learn only what really matters with The Principles of Project Management. Every project you manage will be unique. Scope, budgets, team dynamics, and timeframes will differ. As a project manager, the most important factor in achie ...

Professional Web Design

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:10:23 PST

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"this book presents guidelines for professional Web development, including communicating with clients, creating a road map to a successful portfolio, rules for ...

Successful Freelancing for Web Designers

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:10:19 PST

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Make your freelance business a success. Being a great Web designer or developer is one thing - running a successful freelance business another. Whether you already have experience working in a design firm or have just graduated from design school, being self-employed entails a number of tasks that you most likely haven't had to deal with so far. As a freelance Web designer, you also have to be a ...

The Principles of Successful Freelancing

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:06:14 PST

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Thinking about becoming your own boss and embarking on the wonderful and rewarding journey of freelancing? The Principles of Successful Freelancing is for you. In this easy-to follow guide you'll learn what's important in transforming your skills into a booming freelance business. This book leads you through the entire process, from getting started, through to winning and keeping loyal clients. R ...

Freelance Confidential

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:05:47 PST

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What this Book's All About Freelancing is a solitary pursuit by nature. Frequently, you are working in isolation from a home office (or the occasional ...

Pisapia mi ha rubato l'immagine del profilo

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 4:54:43 PST

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"Una risata vi seppellirà." Questo libro nasce dal fenomeno comico esploso sul web negli ultimi giorni della campagna elettorale per le elezioni comunali a Milano, quando alle insinuazioni minacciose di chi voleva screditare il candidato sindaco Giuliano Pisapia la gente ha risposto in massa con l'arma pungente e non violenta dell'ironia. C'era chi gridava: "Pisapia trasformerà Milano in Zingar ...

RESTful Web Services Cookbook

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:24:45 PST

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While the REST design philosophy has captured the imagination of web and enterprise developers alike, using this approach to develop real web services is no ...

ZMOT

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 6:54:42 PST

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Winning the Zero Moment of Truth is a powerful new eBook by Jim Lecinski, Google's Managing Director of US Sales & Service and Chief ZMOT Evangelist. Jim shares how to get ahead at this critical new marketing moment, supported by exclusive market research, personal stories, and insights from C-level executives at global leaders like General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, and VivaKi.

No Way Down

Thu, 7 Jul 2011 23:27:23 PST

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In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, journalist Graham Bowley re-creates one of the most dramatic tales of death and survival in mountaineering history, vividly taking readers through the tragic 2008 K2 ascent that claimed the lives of eleven climbers, severely injured two others, and made headlines around the world. With its near-perfect pyramid shape, the 28,251-foot K2--the world's ...

Luna? Sì, ci siamo andati!

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 21:29:59 PST

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"Luna? Sì, ci siamo andati!" affronta e smonta con i fatti, una per una, le principali tesi di chi sostiene che gli sbarchi umani sulla Luna furono una messinscena. Complottismi a parte, il libro chiarisce anche i dubbi di chi ha sentito parlare di queste tesi e vuole capire come stanno realmente le cose per non farsi fregare dai contaballe spaziali. Le sue quasi 300 pagine ricche di illustrazi ...

One Mountain Thousand Summits

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 5:15:12 PST

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K2 is the world's second-highest mountain. 'The Savage Mountain', as it's often called, is regarded by climbers as far more challenging than Everest. When 11 men perished on the slopes of K2 in August 2008, it was one of the single deadliest events in Himalayan climbing. Yet none of the surviving Western climbers could explain precisely what happened. Their memories were admittedly fogged by exha ...

Into the Wild

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 1:54:57 PST

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In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose ...

Into Thin Air

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 1:48:02 PST

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Into Thin Air is a riveting first-hand account of a catastrophic expedition up Mount Everest. In March 1996, Outside magazine sent veteran journalist and seasoned climber Jon Krakauer on an expedition led by celebrated Everest guide Rob Hall. Despite the expertise of Hall and the other leaders, by the end of summit day eight people were dead. Krakauer's book is at once the story of the ill-fa ...

High Crimes

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 1:44:37 PST

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"The perfect follow-up to Krakauer's riveting account of a perfect storm." --Miami Herald "Kodas's absorbing description of the narrow moral compass governing human interaction at the top of the world is bound to shock both armchair adventurers and seasoned mountaineers." --Chicago Tribune "(Kodas) discovered more deceit, thievery, and double-crossing among his climbers than y ...

Jacovitti. Diario Vitt

Sun, 5 Jun 2011 4:24:18 PST

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Un lungo viaggio attraverso il mitico Diario Vitt, quello che per tanti anni gli studenti italiani hanno promosso a loro inseparabile compagno di studi! Autore di quei diari era il grande, unico Jacovitti, che costruiva per l'occasione lunghissime saghe dei suoi più celebri personaggi. In questa raccolta, del tutto inedita, le storie di Pippo, Pertica e Palla, dal Diario del 1971, di Jak Mandoli ...

Ladolescenza

Fri, 3 Jun 2011 0:02:01 PST

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Linfanzia e Ladolescenza sono luoghi a cui si sopravvive morti, o gravemente adulti.

Manuale di sopravvivenza del padre contemporaneo

Fri, 3 Jun 2011 0:00:38 PST

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Perché Pippo sembra uno sballato

Thu, 2 Jun 2011 23:59:40 PST

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Batman

Thu, 5 May 2011 18:12:47 PST

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Gotham City is plagued with crime and corruption in places high and low, but one man has taken a stand against evil of all forms: the dark avenger known as Batman. But now the Dark Knight is dead; apparently fallen at the hands of dying god Darkseid. "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader" is a captivating and mysterious tale, the likes of which Batman and friends have never experienced before. ...

CSS3 for Web Designers

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 1:08:05 PST

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From advanced selectors to generated content to the triumphant return of web fonts, and from gradients, shadows, and rounded corners to full-blown animations, CSS3 is a universe of creative possibilities. No one can better guide you through these galaxies than world-renowned designer, author, and CSS superstar Dan Cederholm. Learn what works, how it works, and how to work around browsers where it ...

HTML5 for Web Designers

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 1:07:25 PST

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The HTML5 spec is 900 pages and hard to read. HTML5 for Web Designers is 85 pages and fun to read. Easy choice. HTML5 is the longest HTML specification ever written. It is also the most powerful, and in some ways, the most confusing. What do accessible, content-focused standards-based web designers and front-end developers need to know? And how can we harness the power of HTML5 in today’s browse ...

Smashing CSS

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 1:06:50 PST

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Smashing CSS takes you well beyond the basics, covering not only the finer points of layout and effects, but introduces you to the future with HTML5 and CSS3. Very few in the industry can show you the ins and outs of CSS like Eric Meyer and inside Smashing CSS Eric provides techniques that are thorough, utterly useful, and universally applicable in the real world. From choosing the right tools, t ...

Smashing HTML5

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 1:06:06 PST

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Welcome to HTML5 - the future of the Web HTML5 is packed with great new features, including new content-specific elements, audio and video playback, canvas for drawing, and many others. But where to begin? With Smashing HTML5 , you have everything you need to get up and running quickly. Bill Sanders is a professional Web developer, information and interface designer, and instructor. His exper ...

L'occhio del lupo

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 0:17:30 PST

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In uno zoo, un ragazzo si sofferma affascinato davanti alla gabbia di un lupoe, siccome l'animale ha soltanto un occhio, anche il ragazzo, con estremasensibilità, tiene chiuso uno dei suoi. Questo colpisce il lupo che, per laprima volta, supera l'atavica diffidenza nei confronti degli esseri umani edecide di raccontare al ragazzo la sua storia, tutta vissuta sullo sfondo dipaesaggi nevosi ...

A History of Violence

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 6:02:40 PST

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It was just another quiet day at McKenna's Diner--until a couple of wanted killers walked in looking for trouble. Instead, they got bullets, and Tom McKenna got to be an instant media celebrity. That got him a lot of attention from some people he thought he'd escaped long ago. The kind of people who never forget a face--even after twenty years... Now Tom must confront a group of cold-blooded ...

SELF-Liberation

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:32:44 PST

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This strategic planning guide is intended to assist people who wish themselves to plan a grand strategy, or super plan, to achieve their liberation from oppression and to build a more free and democratic system. This document is not only relevant to people facing internal dictatorships. It is also meant to be useful to people facing any kind of oppression. This short document cannot include adeq ...

From dictatorship to democracy

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:12:11 PST

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2001: A Space Odyssey

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:59:46 PST

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One-Shot; Movie-Adaptation; includes text-pages '2001: A Space Retrospective' Inker(s): Frank Giacoia Colorist(s): Jack Kirby, Marie Severin Letterer(s): John Costanza

La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia

Wed, 2 Feb 2011 16:59:30 PST

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Nel tempo dei tempi la Sicilia viene invasa dagli orsi: scendono dalle piùalte montagne, guidati dal loro re, a cui i cacciatori della pianura hannorapito il figlio. Nella loro memorabile avventura gli orsi superano infinitiostacoli. Alla fine la capitale viene espugnata e il figlio del rericonosciuto in un equilibrista del Gran Teatro Excelsior. Divenuti i signoridell'isola, gli orsi vedo ...

Un genitore quasi perfetto

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 6:09:17 PST

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Non bisogna cercare di essere genitori perfetti o, tantomeno, aspettarsi che perfetti siano i figli. Il segreto - dice Bruno Bettelheim - sta nell'essere un genitore "quasi" perfetto, cercare di comprendere le ragioni dei propri figli, mettersi nei loro panni, costruire con loro un profondo e duraturo rapporto di comunicazione emotiva e affettiva. Solo questo scambio paritario consente di riconos ...

Il bambino è competente

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 6:08:59 PST

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Il bambino nasce "competente" e dispone già di nozioni, valori e criteri divalutazione che orientano concretamente la sua esperienza. Comunemente,invece, ci si comporta con lui come se fosse una specie di tabula rasa su cuii genitori devono imprimere le conoscenze necessarie per un regolare sviluppoumano e sociale. Questo modello nega la sua personalità e induce un deleter ...

Le madri non sbagliano mai

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 6:08:23 PST

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Dedicato a tutti quei genitori che si sentono confusi e disarmati di fronte ai figli, questo libro fa leva sul buon senso. L'intenzione, dichiarata, è restituire serenità e insegnare a non deformare, complicandoli inutilmente, i messaggi, spesso semplici e diretti, che i bambini ci lanciano. Il libro è suddiviso in brevi capitoletti: la madre, il padre, i figli, i fratelli, i nonni, la scuola, la ...

Storia di una gabbianella e del gatto che le insegnò a volare

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 6:27:42 PST

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L'ultima caccia di Kraven

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:59:10 PST

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Il linguaggio segreto dei neonati

Sun, 9 Jan 2011 19:23:55 PST

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Nove mesi di trepidante attesa passati a informarsi, frequentare corsi, interrogare amici e conoscenti. Poi arriva il bambino. E inizia la straordinaria avventura di essere genitori. Un cammino costellato di grandi emozioni, ma anche di profonde insicurezze, durante il quale si ha spesso bisogno di conferme, suggerimenti, risposte precise. Perché piange? Come posso calmarlo? Cosa gli piace e cosa ...

Sarò padre

Sun, 9 Jan 2011 19:22:29 PST

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Fino ad oggi i libri di preparazione al parto, alla nascita e alle prime fasi dello sviluppo infantile si rivolgevano quasi esclusivamente alle donne. Gli uomini erano ignorati. Adesso un numero crescente di uomini sente la necessità di avere informazioni e consigli che si rivolgano specificamente ai padri: si tratta di un notevole cambiamento generazionale a cui la psicologia deve dare risposte ...

Nascere genitori

Sun, 9 Jan 2011 19:20:07 PST

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"Quando ti scopri genitore ti senti nuovo, rinato, e vivi l'ambivalenza di capire che nulla sarà più come prima". Sì, quando nasce un bambino nascono anche due genitori. Partendo da questo assunto - solo apparentemente banale - l'autore, pediatra e padre di tre figli, si è dedicato alla scrittura di questo libro. Con linguaggio chiaro e tono amichevole, traendo spunto dai tanti interrogativi dei ...

Il grande libro della gravidanza

Sun, 9 Jan 2011 19:18:49 PST

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La guida completa alla gravidanza Prepararsi alla nascita e a diventare mamma e papà Mantenersi in salute durante la gravidanza Scegliere il tipo di parto e i metodi per alleviare il dolore durante il travaglio Conoscere le complicazioni e le emergenze mediche Prendersi cura di sé dopo la nascita del bambino Con il contributo dei migliori esperti in ginecologia, ostetricia, medicina per ...

La tua gravidanza di settimana in settimana

Sun, 9 Jan 2011 19:17:49 PST

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Il libro spiega in dettaglio le varie fasi della gravidanza, settimana per settimana. Utilizzando un linguaggio semplice che rende accessibile la terminologia medica, accompagna le future mamme attraverso ogni nuovo sviluppo: dal concepimento alla nascita, all'allattamento. Fondato su ricerche e informazioni aggiornate, il libro illustra lo sviluppo del bambino nel grembo materno, guida attravers ...

HTML5: Up and Running

Tue, 7 Dec 2010 4:18:29 PST

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If you don't know about the new features available in HTML5, now's the time to find out. This book provides practical information about how and why the latest version of this markup language will significantly change the way you develop for the Web. HTML5: Up & Running carefully guides you though the important changes in this version with lots of hands-on examples, including markup, graphics, and ...

L'universo elegante

Tue, 7 Dec 2010 4:04:51 PST

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Oggi fisici e matematici lavorano a una delle più ambiziose teorie mai proposte: la teoria delle stringhe. Grazie a essa, lo scontro secolare tra le leggi del grande (la relatività generale) e le leggi del piccolo (la meccanica dei quanti) viene superato a vantaggio di una superiore unità, basata sull'affermazione che tutti gli eventi dell'universo nascono da un'unica entità: microscopici cicli d ...

L'uomo dei cerchi azzurri

Mon, 6 Dec 2010 18:33:54 PST

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The World Jones made

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:50:20 PST

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Floyd Jones is sullen, ungainly, and quite possibly mad, but in a very short time he will rise from telling fortunes at a mutant carnival to convulsing an entire planet. For although Jones has the power to see the future -- a power that makes his life a torment -- his real gift lies elsewhere: in his ability to make people dream again in a world where dreaming has been made illegal, even when the ...

We Can Build You

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:49:37 PST

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Vulcan's Hammer

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:49:17 PST

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Objective, unbiased and hyperrational, the Vulcan 3 should have been the perfect ruler. The omnipotent computer dictates policy that is in the best interests of all citizens—or at least, that is the idea. But when the machine, whose rule evolved out of chaos and war, begins to lose control of the “Healer” movement of religious fanatics and the mysterious force behing their rebellion, all Hell bre ...

The Zap Gun

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:46:04 PST

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Scaldingly sarcastic yet enduringly empathetic, The Zap Gun is Dick’s remarkable novel depicting the insanity of the arms race. Lars Powderdry and Lilo Topchev are counterpart weapons fashion designers for a world divided into two factions–Wes-bloc and Peep-East. Since the Plowshare Protocols of 2002, their job has been to invent elaborate weapons that only seem massively lethal. But when alien s ...

The Unteleported Man

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:44:34 PST

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Ubik

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:44:06 PST

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Philip K. Dick's searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again.

The transmigration of Timothy Archer

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:43:52 PST

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Valis

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:43:46 PST

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Valis is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being are The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. Valis is a theological detective story, in which Go ...

Time Out of Joint

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:43:07 PST

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Ragle Gumm is an ordinary man leading an ordinary life, except that he makes his living by entering a newspaper contest every day -- and winning, every day. But he gradually begins to suspect that his life -- indeed his whole world -- is an illusion, constructed around him for the express purpose of keeping him docile and happy. But if that is the case, what is his real world like, and what is he ...

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:42:50 PST

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In this wildly disorienting funhouse of a novel, populated by God-like--or perhaps Satanic--takeover artists and corporate psychics, Philip K. Dick explores mysteries that were once the property of St. Paul and Aquinas. His wit, compassion, and knife-edged irony make The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch moving as well as genuinely visionary.

Solar Lottery

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:42:36 PST

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Simulacra, the

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:42:15 PST

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Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, The Simulacra is the story of an America where the whole government is a fraud and the President is an android. Against this backdrop Dr. Superb, the sole remaining psychotherapist, is struggling to practice in a world full of the maladjusted. Ian Duncan is desperately in love with the first lady, Nicole Thibideaux, who he has never met. Richard Ko ...

The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:41:42 PST

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A collection of largely unpublished or out-of-print essays, journals, speeches, and interviews on issues from the merging of physics and metaphysics to the potential influences and consequences of virtual reality by the Hugo Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle. Non-fiction.

The Penultimate Truth

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:41:21 PST

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THE LONGEST LIE World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector. But up on Earth's surface, a different kind of reality reigns. East and West are at peace. Across the planet, an elit ...

Mary and the Giant

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:39:59 PST

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Mary Anne Reynolds is a young and vulnerable woman, determined to make her own way in the world. But Pacific Park, California, in the 1950s is not really the place for Mary. Her relationship with a black singer offends against the small town's views on sexual mores and exposes its bigoted views on race. This is a powerful portrayal of the claustrophobia of small-town California, and Mary Anne Rey ...

Martian Time-Slip

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:39:36 PST

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On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten–year–old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the UN has slated “anomalous” children for deportation and destruction, other people—especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Worker’s union—suspect that Manfred’s disorder may be a window into ...

The Man Who Japed

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:39:22 PST

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The Man Who Japed is Dick's mesmerizing and terrifying tale of a society so eager for order that it will sacrifice anything, including its freedom. Newer York is a post-holocaust city governed by the laws of an oppressively rigid morality. Highly mobile and miniature robots monitor the behavior of every citizen, and the slightest transgression can spell personal doom. Allen Purcell is one of the ...

The Man in the High Castle

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:39:04 PST

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I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:38:49 PST

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This volume brings together ten previously uncollected stories and a major unpublished essay, which span nearly thirty years of the career of the noted science fiction writer.

The Game-players of Titan

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:38:33 PST

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Philip K Dick's classic dystopian novel set in the future where the remaining human survivors on Earth must gamble for their future with aliens from Titan, one of the moons circling Saturn. Roaming the pristine landscape of Earth, cared for by machines and aliens, the few remaining humans alive since the war with Titan play Bluff, allowing them to win or lose property and also form new marriages ...

Galactic Pot-healer

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:38:13 PST

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What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagina ...

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:38:00 PST

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On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime–time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has–been but a never–was—a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his existence. And in the claustrophobic betrayal state of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, loss of proof is synonyms with loss of ...

Dr. Bloodmoney

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:37:35 PST

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Dr. Bloodmoney is a post-nuclear-holocaust masterpiece filled with a host of Dick’s most memorable characters: Hoppy Harrington, a deformed mutant with telekinetic powers; Walt Dangerfield, a selfless disc jockey stranded in a satellite circling the globe; Dr. Bluthgeld, the megalomaniac physicist largely responsible for the decimated state of the world; and Stuart McConchie and Bonnie Keller, tw ...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:37:16 PST

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World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal -- the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life. Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for ...

Divine Invasions

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:36:53 PST

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Divine Invasions is the definitive biography of one of America's greatest novelists and science fiction's greatest ambassador to literary audiences. Philip K. Dick loosened the bonds of the genre, ultimately making his reputation as a literary writer who happened to write speculative fiction, and profoundly influencing such writers as Pynchon, Delillo, David Foster Wallace, and Jonathan Lethem. D ...

Deus Irae

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:36:25 PST

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In the years following World War III, a new and powerful faith has arisen from a scorched and poisoned Earth, a faith that embraces the architect of world wide devastation. The Servants of Wrath have deified Carlton Lufteufel and re-christened him the Deus Irae. In the small community of Charlottesville, Utah, Tibor McMasters, born without arms or legs, has, through an array of prostheses, establ ...

Counter-Clock World

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:34:47 PST

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In Counter-Clock World, one of the most theologically probing of all of Dick’s books, the world has entered the Hobart Phase–a vast sidereal process in which time moves in reverse. As a result, libraries are busy eradicating books, copulation signifies the end of pregnancy, people greet with, “Good-bye,” and part with, “Hello,” and underneath the world’s tombstones, the dead are coming back to li ...

Radio Free Albemuth

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:32:56 PST

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In Radio Free Albemuth, his last novel, Philip K. Dick morphed and recombined themes that had informed his fiction from A Scanner Darkly to VALIS and produced a wild, impassioned work that reads like a visionary alternate history of the United States. Agonizingly suspenseful, darkly hilarious, and filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most hardened paranoid, Radio Free Albemuth is ...

Confessions of a Crap Artist

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:32:55 PST

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Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick's weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hallow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But seen throug ...

Second Variety

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:32:19 PST

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The stories within SECOND VARIETY were written between 1952 and 1955, while America was in the grip of McCarthyism. The concerns of the time are reflected in stories such as "Second Variety", which tells of an endless war fought by ever more cunning and sophisticated robots, or "Imposter" where a man accused of being an alien spy finds his whole identity called into question. Using his marvello ...