Learn IT - Books tags funny

Becoming

Metropolis Ink, 2008

Do you remember your radio and "Captain Midnight," "The Lone Ranger," "Junior Miss" and "Let's Pretend"? The first time you inhaled a cigarette? Your first swallow of hard liquor? The thrill of the first exploration of the body of your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife... your own body? Your first...

Where the Germs Are: A Scientific Safari

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

"'Dirty! Don't touch! Yuck! Feh! You don't know where it's been!' These admonitions ring in our ears-for some of us our earliest memories of parental exhortation, for others the indelible mark of our deepest fears. Germs, as we know, are everywhere, lying in wait to attack the inadequately vigilant or insufficiently armed, gangs of serial...

Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip-Hop's Moral Center

Soft Skull Press, 2008

Should graffiti writers organize to tear up the cities, or should they really be bombing the Âburbs? That’s the question posed by William Upski Wimsatt in his seminal foray into the world of hip-hop, rap, and street art, and the culture and politics that surround it. But to say that the book deals only with taggers and hip-hop is...

Outspoken: Free Speech Stories

University of California Press, 2003

"America's national obsession with asserting, and quelling, free-speech comes alive in this collection of profiles of First Amendment firebrands.Ê.Ê.Ê. The author goes beyond the usual polarized corners of political correctness.Ê.Ê.Ê.Êher nuanced treatment of all sides of the debate makes this a...

How to Get What You Want...Without Having to Ask

FT Press, 2011

Tired of not getting what you want? Don't know how to ask for it? Best-selling author Richard Templar brings his inimitable blend of originality, imagination, wisdom, and straight talk to the challenges of negotiation, persuasion, and influence. Templar offers up 100 clever, simple, pain-free ways to get people to...

Beginning Game Level Design (Premier Press Game Development)

Course Technology PTR, 2005

Welcome to Beginning Game Level Design, the book that finally makes sense of low-carb
diets and whether aliens did indeed seed the planet with humanity. Or maybe that’s my
other book, Low-Carb Diets and Alien Conspiracy Theories for Blockheads. This book is
about creating great mods or levels to impress and bring joy to your...

CSS3 for Web Designers

Book Apart, 2019

Websites are not the same as pictures of websites. When one person designs in Photoshop and another converts the design to markup and CSS, the coder must make guesses and assumptions about what the designer intended. This interpretive process is never without friction—unless the coder is Dan Cederholm. When Dan codes other...

iMovie '09 and iDVD: The Missing Manual

Pogue Press, 2009

Bursting with new features, Apple's iMovie '09 is vastly more usable and complete than iMovie '08--amazing right out of the box. But the box doesn't include a good user's guide, so learning these applications is another matter. iMovie '09 and iDVD: The Missing Manual gets you up to speed on everything you need to turn raw digital footage...

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora: Ancient Greek and Roman Humour

Legacy Books Press, 2007

Ancient Greece and Rome aren't usually remembered for their sense of humour. However, in reality the ancient Greeks and Romans often refused to take themselves seriously. Strange and outlandish activities abounded - including somebody accidentally exposing himself while dancing sideways at his wedding (those wearing bed sheets didn't...

How to Lie with Maps

University of Chicago Press, 1991

Originally published to wide acclaim, this lively, cleverly illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches us how to evaluate maps critically and promotes a healthy skepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality. Monmonier shows that, despite their immense value, maps lie. In fact, they must.

The second...

Don't Panic with Mechanics!

Vieweg and Teubner, 2006

The ultimate companion in classical horror discipline of engineering science! Contents of the book are the basics of mechanics as treated in engineering and physical sciences: Statics, Elastostatics, Kinematics & Kinetics in unconventional, humorous presentation with many cartoons, funny explanations and a chapter containing several exercises...

Just Eat It: How intuitive eating can help you get your shit together around food

blue bird uk, 2020

Review: Truly life-changing . It's about trusting your appetite - something that shouldn't be radical, yet something many women (including myself) see as a hugely daunting task. (Dolly Alderton); Laura is a passionate and intelligent voice of new thinking, a fire starter of the revolution in how we think about food, eating and our...

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