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Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research11 reviews
Mike Kuniavsky

Morgan Kaufmann, 2003

Must have for user experience professionals!
I'm always recommending this book to my colleagues. This is not a book that is meant to be read cover to cover. It's more of a desk top reference for all kinds of user research techniques. I've found it to be very comprehensive. Buy it, you won't regret it! 		  
  







  
  
Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data ...31 reviews
Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank

Morgan Kaufmann, 2005

Useful addition to your shelf
This title is a most useful addition to your data mining collection, especially if you plan to do some practical experimentation with the Open Source WEKA software it describes. You do not need a degree in maths or statistics to work with this text, conversely don't expect detailed line-by-line explanations of each algorithm either. If you want that open up the Java code in the WEKA software. I ... 		  
  







  
  
Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics (Interactive ...10 reviews
Thomas Tullis, William Albert

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Excellent practical guide
Tullis and Albert have written a very readable and very practical guide to UX metrics that will be be appreciated by readers at any experience level with regard to UX design. Particularly useful is the distinction made between issues-based and performance-based metrics, and the role of statistics and statistical validity in these two types of metrics. The primer on statistical analysis focused ... 		  
  







  
  
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 4th Edition18 reviews
John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson

Morgan Kaufmann, 2006

Excellent deep-dive into processor architecture
This book isn't for the timid. It goes deep into several recent CPU designs and explains why the architectures turned out the way they did. There is decent coverage of RISC versus CISC ideas, and why CISC now dominates (hint: it is a combination of luck, marketing, and massive amounts of available transistors, plus new ways of instruction-level parallelism). It does not cover the absolute ... 		  
  







  
  
The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses24 reviews
Jesse Schell

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Essential foundation book for designers
I bought this book a few weeks ago with the intent of strengthening my skills in game design and programming, especially with an intent towards mobile games. In the first few pages, I was a bit disappointed, as I was hoping for something to get something more immediate in terms of how to program for games, and the book seemed to be a bit more philosophical. As I started reading further, I ... 		  
  







  
  
Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works (Interactive Technologies)46 reviews
Janice (Ginny) Redish

Morgan Kaufmann, 2007

Fantastic Book!
This book is great for any organization looking to improve their website. There are great ideas for making the site better and easier to navigate. Most of the ideas are the ones that you can easily over look but can greatly affect the users experience on your site. The real world examples and changes that Ginny would make to improve the sites are especially helpful. Ginny points out the ... 		  
  







  
  
Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction (Morgan Kaufmann ...18 reviews
Daniel Shiffman

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Excellent as a textbook for Intro to Programming!
I am a college professor at a small California Community College. I stumbled onto processing about three years ago, just when I was designing a new 'first course' in programming. I decided at the time to go with an existing textbook which used Java as a first language. I was not happy with the results. When I got a look at the Shiffman text, I got excited about processing again. I used ... 		  
  







  
  
Game Design Workshop, Second Edition: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games (Gama Network ...5 reviews
Tracy Fullerton

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

My Search Has Ended!
This book is honestly an answer to my prayers! I'm using the first half of this superb book to remodel my introductory game design class & after school game design club. The included exercises are definitely geared toward capturing the attention of the type of kids I want to attract to my program. I think I'm going to have to buy a 2nd book as my son is using the last half of the book to ... 		  
  







  
  
Computer Organization and Design, Fourth Edition, Fourth Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan ...90 reviews
David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Good books and very cheap
I have to say this is the best deal I get from Amazon.com, only cost me 1 dollar and it is amazing cheap! 		  
  







  
  
Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies)20 reviews
Bill Buxton

Morgan Kaufmann, 2007

This book will push you to be a better and more creative designer
I am an interaction designer for almost 10 years, and I am often disappointed with books on this subject. They are all too basic and tell you the obvious. They don't add much, except validating what you already know and make you feel good about what you do. This book was different. It gave me a different perspective. It pushed me in exploring alternatives, trying different techniques, and don't ... 		  
  







  
  
The Art of Multiprocessor Programming10 reviews
Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Soon to be the classic text on multiprocessor programming
The Art of Multiprocessor Programming is an outstanding text that will soon become a classic. I give a chapter by chapter review of it below. Practitioners that are already well versed in parallel programming can jump directly to Chapter 7, however, I would suggest at least skimming Chapters 2, 3 and 4. Even those programmers who understand shared memory and locking may be shocked at how ... 		  
  







  
  
Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do (Interactive Technologies)33 reviews
B.J. Fogg

Morgan Kaufmann, 2002

Will Do - Can Do - User Perspective
Having spent 8 years in the field of Web Development and after being a part of many Internet and Intranet web projects and applications. There was one question that was constantly bothering me. We as a team, on almost all the occasions tried very hard to make the applications and websites as much user friendly as much as we could so that the users CAN DO it when he is there. The question was if ... 		  
  







  
  
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, Fourth Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)7 reviews
Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie

Morgan Kaufmann, 2007

Excellent background on TCP/IP
This was a required textbook for one of my courses, so I started out by borrowing a copy from the library, but I liked the book so much, that I ended up buying it. This book gives an excellent insight into the design decisions that went into original TCP/IP design, the subsequent problems and the changes that were made to counter those. The problem set after each chapter is interesting and ... 		  
  







  
  
The Designer's Guide to VHDL, Volume 3, Third Edition (Systems on Silicon)22 reviews
Peter J. Ashenden

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Wow - what a find!
A very fine book. I have many VHDL books but this one does it for me. 		  
  







  
  
Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability (Interactive Technologies)10 reviews
Caroline Jarrett, Gerry Gaffney

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Comprehensive demystification for forms on the web
The web design world has been lacking in a books focusing on forms for a long time, then along come two: "Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability" and Luke Wroblewski's Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks. Both books are truly good but if you had to choose just one, I would recommend "Forms that Work", for two reasons. Firstly, while Wroblewski comes from a general web interface ... 		  
  







  
  
Programming Language Pragmatics, Third Edition23 reviews
Michael L. Scott

Morgan Kaufmann, 2009

Excellent book, but will not do the intended job
I enjoy the book very much. The author gives an over all introduction to the basics of the programming languages. It does not, however, dig deep into any specific area. To master in a specialized subject, one will have to seek help from other books. As the author has stated, to learn all the subjects the book is covering, one will have to spend years (taking different courses in computer ... 		  
  







  
  
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)30 reviews
Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, ...

Morgan Kaufmann, 2006

Great book for data mining
I bought this book as a text book for data mining. I found this book give a solid introduction to multiple topics and a ready reference. One thing , I found though was a rather superficial treatment of very specific algorithms and a thorough treatment of general ones . Atleast the most popular specific algorithms can be detailed. 		  
  







  
  
Visual Thinking: for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)3 reviews
Colin Ware

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Exicting, Original, Superb Overall, Could be Expanded
I found this book provocative at multiple levels. At the strategic level, although I have known about and followed Elsevier for decades, I am beginning to perceive a more coherent publishing strategy, and was pleased to see notice of their collaboration with BookAid and the Sabre Foundation to create libraries in developing countries. At the operational level, I found this book to be a ... 		  
  







  
  
Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL12 reviews
Dean Allemang, James Hendler

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Finally, a good textbook
There are maybe half a dozen or so books in my library that have defined the body of knowledge that has been the subject of my career. All the others are interesting (or not) but not the definitive description of the subject. It is very rare when a new one comes along. But when one does succinctly and clearly define and describe a subject area I have been struggling to master for several ... 		  
  







  
  
The Art and Science of Digital Compositing, Second Edition: Techniques for Visual Effects, Animation and ...4 reviews
Ron Brinkmann

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Amazing - no other text compares
I started my career in visual effects around the same time the first edition was published and have referenced it constantly through out the 9+ years. I bought the 2nd edition for two reasons, my copy of the first edition was falling apart and nostalgia. I was not expecting much new information and was mostly just looking for an intact copy of the first edition with a few new tidbits here and ... 		  
  







  




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