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Miles 65 reviews Miles Davis
Simon & Schuster, 1990
Miles
+ amazing ! + a long bunch of Miles + essential Jazz history
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1984 11 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
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No More Secondhand Art 8 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
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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.
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Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers 20 reviews Tom Igoe, Dan O'Sullivan
Course Technology PTR, 2004
Good begginner book
+ Marcos Chilet........diseņar conductas. + Good starting point + good range.
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Picture This: How Pictures Work 7 reviews Molly Bang
Chronicle Books, 2000
Picture This: How Pictures Work
+ A Must Have + Fantastic book! + for grownups, too
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Dao De Jing: The Book of the Way 4 reviews Laozi
University of California Press, 2004
An exceptional translation.
+ important work of philosophy + Excellent + A "different" translation
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The Medium is the Massage 22 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.
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Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem Arthur Miller
Penguin USA, 1976
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Java by Dissection Charlie McDowell, Ira Pohl
Lulu.com, 2006
Second Edition. Introduction to programming using Java.
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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
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La casa en mango street/ The House on Mango Street 15 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 ...
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man 28 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
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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
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The Jazz Piano Book 28 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
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Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail 64 reviews Ruben Martinez
Picador, 2002
Brilliant
+ Crossing Over + The border is closer than you think... + We moved to Mexico ... + A must read
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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 ...
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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 ...
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A Little Book on the Human Shadow 11 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
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Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit 13 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
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