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 California For Dummies (Dummies Travel)With two of the nation’s largest megalopolises — Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area—California has the largest, wealthiest, and most urbanized population of any state in the nation. Yet it’s also an agricultural wonderland, a nature-lovers paradise, a wine-lover’s dream, an outdoor enthusiast’s ideal... | | Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)With Relationscapes, Erin Manning offers a new philosophy of movement challenging the idea that movement is simple displacement in space, knowable only in terms of the actual. Exploring the relation between sensation and thought through the prisms of dance, cinema, art, and new media, Manning argues for the intensity of movement. From this... | | Apple Aperture 1.5 Photographers' GuideApple’s Aperture provides the professional photographer with a powerful new resource for organizing, adjusting, and distributing photographs. Although this young application still has some kinks in it that Apple needs to work out, it may already be the most powerful photo organizing application we’ve ever had.
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Demonstrating Science with Soap FilmsMany of us have been fascinated as children by soap bubbles and soap films. Scientists and mathematicians have been interested in the properties of bubbles and films throughout scientific history.
In Demonstrating Science with Soap Films David Lovett describes how the properties of soap films and bubbles can illustrate and elucidate a... | | Google SketchUp: The Missing ManualIf you want to learn to create 3-D models using Google SketchUp, this Missing Manual is the ideal place to start. Filled with step-by-step tutorials, this entertaining, reader-friendly guide will have you creating detailed 3-D objects, including building plans, furniture, landscaping plans--even characters for computer games--in no time.
... | | Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and DivideWhy do people become extremists? What makes people become so dismissive of opposing views? Why is political and cultural polarization so pervasive in America? Why do groups of teenagers, investors, and corporations take unnecessary risks? What leads groups to engage in such destructive acts as terrorism and ethic cleansing?
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