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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
by Matthew Frederick  Publisher Comments Concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation, from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory....
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Online Sale: $17.49 Hardcover List Price $24.99
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Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
by Elizabeth Royte Publisher Comments An incisive, intrepid, and habit-changing narrative investigation into the commercialization of our most basic human need: drinking water. Having already surpassed milk and beer, and second now only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming...
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
by Leonard Susskind Publisher Comments What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did-and in doing so put at risk everything we know about physics and the fundamental laws of the universe...
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Used: $17.95 Hardcover List Price $29.95
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Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America
by Stephen Trimble 
Publisher Comments Beginning with an Olympic ski race in northern Utah, this heartfelt book from award-winning writer and photographer Stephen Trimble takes a penetrating look at the battles raging over the land — and the soul — of the American West. Bargaining...
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Marbled and Paste Papers: Rosamond Loring's Recipe Book
by Rosamond B Loring Publisher Comments Rosamond B. Loring, author of "Decorated Book Papers," was also a skilled maker of marbled and paste papers. Having trained as a bookbinder, Loring experimented with making decorated papers for her own use and received early instruction in the art of...
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Statistics in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell)
by Sarah Boslaugh Publisher Comments Need to learn statistics as part of your job, or want some help passing a statistics course? Statistics in a Nutshell is a clear and concise introduction and reference that's perfect for anyone with no previous background in the subject. This book gives...
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The World without Us
by Alan Weisman
Powells.com Staff Pick "Let us try a creative experiment," Alan Weisman proposes on page three: If humans disappeared from earth, what would happen? To your home, for example. To our cities, farms, and oceans. To the animals that remain. Or to the billion tons of plastic we'd...
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13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
by Michael Brooks Publisher Comments When we look to the anomalies that science can't explain, we often discover where science is about to go. Here are a few of the anomalies that Michael Brooks investigates in 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: Homeopathic remedies seem to have biological...
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The Cult of the Amateur: How Blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the Rest of Today's User-Generated Media Are Destroying Our Economy, Our Culture, and Our Values
by Andrew Keen Publisher Comments Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens...
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Learning ASP.Net 3.5
by Jesse Liberty Publisher Comments With this book, you will learn how to create engaging and interactive web applications using the latest version of the world's most popular web development platform: ASP.NET with AJAX, built on the productivity-enhancing features of Visual Studio 2008...
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Learning the VI & VIM Editors 7TH Edition
by Arnold Robbins Publisher Comments There's nothing that hard-core Unix and Linux users are more fanatical about than their text editor. Editors are the subject of adoration and worship, or of scorn and ridicule, depending upon whether the topic of discussion is your editor or someone else'...
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Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary H)
by Herve This Publisher Comments HervA(c) This (pronounced Teess) is an internationally renowned chemist, a popular French television personality, a bestselling cookbook author, a longtime collaborator with the famed French chef Pierre Gagnaire, and the only person to hold a doctorate...
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Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World
by David D Friedman Publisher Comments Future Imperfect describes and discusses a variety of technological revolutions that might happen over the next few decades, their implications, and how to deal with them. Topics range from encryption and surveillance through biotechnology and...
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Learning Perl 5TH Edition
by Randal Schwartz Publisher Comments Learning Perl, popularly known as the Llama, is the book most programmers rely on to get started with Perl. The bestselling Perl tutorial since it was first published in 1993, this new fifth edition covers recent changes to the language up to Perl 5.10...
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Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
by Paul A. Offit Publisher Comments His goal—to prevent every disease that commonly attacked children—was unattainable. But Maurice Hilleman came close. Maurice Hilleman is the father of modern vaccines. Chief among his accomplishments are nine vaccines that practically every...
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The Productive Programmer
by Neal Ford Publisher Comments Anyone who develops software for a living needs a proven way to produce it better, faster, and cheaper. The Productive Programmer offers critical timesaving and productivity tools that you can adopt right away, no matter what platform you use. Master...
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The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich Publisher Comments In humanity's more than 100,000 year history, we have evolved from vulnerable creatures clawing sustenance from Earth to a sophisticated global society manipulating every inch of it. In short, we have become the dominant animal. Why, then, are we...
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Fashioning Technology: A DIY Intro to Smart Crafting (Craft: Projects)
by Syuzi Pakhchyan Publisher Comments Ready to take your craft projects to the next level? With smart materials, unorthodox assembly techniques, and the right tools, you can create accessories, housewares, and toys that light up, make sounds, or do even more. Fashioning Technology is an...
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Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space
by Michael Belfiore Publisher Comments On June 21, 2004, SpaceShipOne, built by aircraft designer Burt Rutan, entered space and ushered in the commercial space age. Investment capital began to pour into the new commercial spaceflight industry. Richard Branson's VirginGalactic will begin...
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Website Optimization
by Andrew B. King Publisher Comments Remember when an optimized website was one that merely didn't take all day to appear? Times have changed. Today, website optimization can spell the difference between enterprise success and failure, and it takes a lot more know-how to achieve success...
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