Miles65 reviews
Miles Davis

Simon & Schuster, 1990

Miles

+ amazing !
+ a long bunch of Miles
+ essential Jazz history
  
  











  



  
198411 reviews
George Orwell

Signet Classics, 1950

Amazing

+ A Haunting, Believable Look At the End of Human Freedom
+ A very disturbing book
+ What It Means to Be Human
+ the hobo philosopher
  
  











  



  
No More Secondhand Art8 reviews
Peter London

Shambhala, 1989

No No Secon-Hand Art

+ CLASS TOOL
+ If you like The Artist's Way ...
+ "Art is a response to a call..."
+ Teachers Listen
  
  











  



  
Digital Art (World of Art)3 reviews
Christiane Paul

Thames & Hudson, 2003

Consice overview of who is who

+ one of the best new digital art guides ever.

I used this book as a textbook in the classroom. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants a quick overview and to use this as a lanching point to understanding what new media is and exploring its rich and growing history. It's also very affordable.
  
  











  



  
Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers20 reviews
Tom Igoe, Dan O'Sullivan

Course Technology PTR, 2004

Good begginner book

+ Marcos Chilet........diseņar conductas.
+ Good starting point
+ good range.
  
  











  



  
Picture This: How Pictures Work7 reviews
Molly Bang

Chronicle Books, 2000

Picture This: How Pictures Work

+ A Must Have
+ Fantastic book!
+ for grownups, too
  
  











  



  
Dao De Jing: The Book of the Way4 reviews
Laozi

University of California Press, 2004

An exceptional translation.

+ important work of philosophy
+ Excellent
+ A "different" translation
  
  











  



  
The Medium is the Massage22 reviews
Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore

Gingko Press, 2005

My view of the world ...

+ So visionary that the most important aspects are yet to come!
+ Very good book. Almost prophetic.

... was profoundly influenced by this book. I read it about 30 years ago. I'm pleasantly surprised to find it still in print.
  
  











  



  
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
Arthur Miller

Penguin USA, 1976
  
  











  



  
Java by Dissection
Charlie McDowell, Ira Pohl

Lulu.com, 2006

Second Edition. Introduction to programming using Java.
  
  











  



  
C Programming Language (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Software)257 reviews
Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

Prentice Hall PTR, 1988

The Must-have

+ A book to keep ..
+ C Programming Book
+ Magic book
+ Great Book
  
  











  



  
La casa en mango street/ The House on Mango Street15 reviews
Sandra Cisneros

Topeka Bindery, 1999

Spanish student who loved this book!

+ Mango Street - un regalo!
+ My Personal Review on The House on Mango Street

I read this book for my intermediate Spanish class, and I found it to be a wonderful challenge because it expanded my vocabulary and helped me uncover the different ways things can be taken in Spanish. I liked how poetic the book is, though it was a bit confusing at times. It gives great insight ...
  
  











  



  
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man28 reviews
Marshall McLuhan, Lewis H. Lapham

The MIT Press, 1994

A WORLD WITHOUT WALLS

+ timeless work, more applicable to today than ever...
+ An Insightful Gaze at the Involution of the World
+ One of the top ten thinkers of all time
+ Indispensable and Infuriating -- In Short, What a Book Should Be
  
  











  



  
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library (Cloth))133 reviews
Italo Calvino

Everyman's Library, 1993

Italo Calvino's Masterpiece

+ "I read, therefore it (the world) writes"
+ If On a Winter's Night a Traveller
+ Entertaining and Ingenious
+ Creative and Complex
  
  











  



  
The Jazz Piano Book28 reviews
Mark Levine

Sher Music, 2005

"The" book for playing jazz on piano

+ Tough book
+ A review for the Beginner
+ The definitive jazz piano instructional book
  
  











  



  
Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail64 reviews
Ruben Martinez

Picador, 2002

Brilliant

+ Crossing Over
+ The border is closer than you think...
+ We moved to Mexico ...
+ A must read
  
  











  



  
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (Bk Currents)98 reviews
John de Graaf, David Wann, ...

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005

Changed my life for the better (through simplication)

+ Are You Infected!

This book quite literally changed my life in a great way. Upon reading the introductory chapters, it was clear to me that I surely had Affluenza. Continuing through the book, I realized how dire it was that our whole country was "infected" and how deeply. Finally, it offered real solutions to ...
  
  











  



  
Data Abstraction and Problem Solving with Java (2nd Edition)5 reviews
Frank M. Carrano, Janet J. Prichard

Addison Wesley, 2005

Great Book!

+ Data Abstreaction w/Java Book
+ A good data structures book???

I didn't appreciate this book until after I was finished with my class and had moved on to upper level programing classes at my University. I had an excellent teacher for the class and just never read the book. Now, in my new class, which we are using c++, we are working with more complicated and ...
  
  











  



  
A Little Book on the Human Shadow11 reviews
Robert Bly

HarperOne, 1988

An excellent guide to solving behavior problems

+ Want to understand yourself?
+ You can't go your whole life without reading this teeny gem....
+ Maturity
  
  











  



  
Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit13 reviews
Vandana Shiva

South End Press, 2002

The Single Most Important Book You Can Read Today

+ Informative but lacking...

the global water crisis is the biggest issue we will face in our lifetimes and not much is being done. This book puts things in a human light and makes solutions seem possible. Stop Bottled Water Industries Protect Global Commons [...]